Definitions
1.nounA long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
2.nounA 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.
3.nounBait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
4.nounA narrow high-rise apartment building.
5.verbTo cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit."to sliver wood"