Other forms: slivers
A sliver is a very thin narrow piece broken off something. A sliver of glass, a sliver of cake, a sliver of light.
It is thinner than a slice and usually accidental: a sliver of glass is what you find with a foot. A sliver of light under a door and a sliver of hope are both the same image of something very thin indeed.
1nounsliverA very thin narrow piece broken off something.
“A sliver of wood from the old fence got stuck in my finger.”
sliver is a piece.
From Middle English sliven, to split, from Old English slifan, to cleave.
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English, today
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From Middle English sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA