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long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood. Shak. They 'll sliver thee like a turnip. Sir W. Scott.

A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working. To lap boards, shingles, etc., to lay one partly over another. -- To lap timbers, to unite them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. Weale.

A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco.

To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing. Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire.

The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.

To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.

To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool.

A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.

lit or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.

A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers. Knight.

A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.