sliver

  1. Noun.  A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
  2. Noun.  A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
  3. Noun.  Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
  4. Noun.  (context, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.

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