Definition of slivers:
(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.