Definition of Sliving

1. slive [v] - See also: slive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sliving

slittiest
slitting
slitty
slive
slived
sliven
sliver
slivered
sliverer
sliverers
slivering
sliverlike
slivers
slivery
slives
sliving (current term)
slivovic
slivovices
slivovitz
slivovitzes
slo-mo
sloakan
sloam
sloams
sloan
sloans
sloat
sloats
slob
slob ice

Literary usage of Sliving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Kiml Lear, iv. a. 34. ' Third Witch. Slips of yew Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse.'—Macbeth, iv. i. 27. ' sliving, cutting away ..."

2. A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of by James Robinson Planché (1876)
"He also informs us that in Lincolnshire sliver signifies "a short slop worn by bankers or navigators. It was formerly called a sliving. ..."

3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"I have had a hankering mind after her these two years, but the sliving ... What are you a sliving about (quid cessas ?), you drone ? you are a year a ..."

4. Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of by Samuel Pegge, Francis Grose (1814)
"Slink, a calf produced before its time. Var, Dial. Slive, to cleave, or cut in general. Also a slice; as, A slive off a cut loaf will not be missed. sliving ..."

5. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"Clare sanctions our local usage in the following quotations:— What bustle to his cottage has he made, Ere sliving night around his journey threw Her ..."

6. Two Collections of Derbicisms Containing Words and Phrases in a Great by Samuel Pegge, Thomas Hallam (1896)
"[a slice] ; as a great sliving bread, for instance. Slobber [slob-ur], vie to slabber ; [to smear \v victuals issuing from the mouth]. ..."

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