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Definition of Slivery
1. Adjective. Resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points. "A rough splintery floor of old pine boards"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slivery
Literary usage of Slivery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Country School in New England by Clifton Johnson (1893)
"The little yard was hemmed in on three sides by a high and slivery board fence.
... The slivery board fence withstood the ravages of time and the boys much ..."
2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Christmas Ba'ing, Skinner's Misc. Pod. p. 124. In Edit. 1805, slavery occurs
instead of slivery. Teut. saec/il, mollis, mitis, lentus. ..."
3. Went to Kansas: Being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-fated Expedition to that by Miriam Davis Colt (1862)
"... of "shakes," doubled and trebled, they being j nst long enough to lap from
beam to beam, which from their slivery sides and warping propensity, ..."
4. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"It »is in these words : L That the interference by the citizens of any of the
States, with the view to the abolition of slivery in this District, ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1908)
"Head with the large prominent eyes much wider than the thorax, very finely and
densely rugulose, front densely clothed with short slivery white recumbent ..."
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