Lexicographical Neighbors of Sliving
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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