noun bait made of pieces of small fish. ·cf. kibblings.
2. sliver ·noun a long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
3. sliver ·vt to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
4. sliver ·noun 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 preceeds spinning.