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Definition of Slivering
1. sliver [v] - See also: sliver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slivering
Literary usage of Slivering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Zoological Position of Texas by Edward Drinker Cope (1880)
"slivering-knives used by fishermen. is thrown over the sides of the mackerel-smacks
to ... slivering-knife. (Pattern first used by Cape Ann fishermen.) Geo. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"slivering MACHINE, one of a class of machines used in match-making, dividing
match-cards, forming veneers, etc. Excelsior and toothpicks are made ..."
3. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"Then you begin a-slivering with a sharp jack- knife, leetle teeny flat slivers way
... Then you take off the bark above the ring and begin slivering down. ..."
4. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"Then you begin a-slivering with a sharp jack- knife, leetle teeny flat slivers way
... Then you take off the bark above the ring and begin slivering down. ..."
5. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"From the spreading machine the silk is taken to the seil or slivering machine,
which is constructed similarly to the spreader, with the exception that the ..."
6. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1903)
"It is the usual practice to employ unmatched flooring, the advantages argued for
it being that it can be worn through without slivering at the tongues and ..."
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