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sliver
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| Definition of sliver: 
a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers" 
 a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something divide into slivers or splinters break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered" form into slivers; "sliver wood" |