2. Verb. (third-person singular of sliver) ¹
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Definition of Slivers
1. sliver [v] - See also: sliver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slivers
Literary usage of Slivers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1872)
"In order to ensure the drawing rollers being always supplied with the full number
of six slivers, each of the slivers fed up to the rollers is passed over a ..."
2. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"slivers or scale, first rolled into the surface, and then torn out, ... slivers:
slivers are due to defective teeming of the molten steel and to a tearing ..."
3. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"slivers or scale, first rolled into the surface, and then torn out, ... slivers:
slivers are due to defective teeming of the molten steel and to a tearing ..."
4. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1854)
"The results attained are consequent on the so feeding the slivers into a carding
and condensing- engine, that each sliver is separated from its neighbours, ..."
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