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Definition of slivering:

(n) : A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
(n) : A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
(v) : (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
(n) : 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.
(n) : (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
(n) : (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.

Definition of slivering:

(n) : A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
(n) : A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
(v) : (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
(n) : 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.
(n) : (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
(n) : (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.

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