Skivered vs Slivered - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between skivered and slivered is that skivered is ( skiver) while slivered is ( sliver).
skivered English
Verb
(head)
(skiver)
skiver English
Noun
( en noun)
One who uses a skive (or skives).
A slacker.
(dialect) A skewer.
An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
Verb
( en verb)
To skewer, impale.
*1863 , Le Fanu,
- [...] 'it's I that wishes I could be sure 'twas malice, I'd skiver you, heels and elbows, on my sword, and roast you alive on that fire.
*1887 , Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders ,
- I'll finish heating the oven, and set you free to go and skiver up them ducks.
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slivered English
Verb
(head)
(sliver)
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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
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* Sir Walter Scott
- They'll sliver thee like a turnip.
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