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Sliver vs Fliver - What's the difference?

sliver | fliver |

As nouns the difference between sliver and fliver

is that sliver is a long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter while fliver is .

As a verb sliver

is to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

sliver

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
  • *:A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
  • 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.
  • Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
  • (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

    • Synonyms

    * (long piece cut or rent off) shard, slice, splinter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
    • to sliver wood
    (Shakespeare)
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • They'll sliver thee like a turnip.

    Anagrams

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    fliver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1943 , Ivar Lund, The end of Lucifer's tail , page 348:
    • He had seated himself in the farmer's old fliver , [and] ridden for some miles.
  • * 2002 , Hartwick New York -- Heart of Otsego County , page 244:
    • A natural born mechanic and tinkerer, he kept many an old fliver on the road.
  • * 2002 , William V. Reynolds, Call of the Pines , page 256:
    • "Come on old fliver . Don't let us down now," he coaxed. But the faithful machine had gone as far as it could. The fuel mix had burned
  • until the last minute. Now the moisture in the tank was too much for the firing system.
  • * 2008 , Isaac Hallenberg, Rustbelt Fables , page 106:
    • But with my new job I was able to buy an old fliver down at Able Andy's car lot.
  • * 2008 , Eds James Lee Hutchinson, Bombs Away: WWII Eighth Air Force Stories , page 270:
    • [...] the twenty-one inch wheels handled the poor roads and the dependable old "fliver " had enough steel in it to build two of today's cars.