sliver

sliver definitions

• A narrow high-rise apartment building. 

• 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. 

• Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin. 

• A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter. 

• Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings. 

• A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred. 

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