sliver

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A slender piece cut, split, or broken off; a splinter: slivers of broken glass.
2. n. A small narrow piece, portion, or plot: a sliver of land.
3. n. A continuous strand of loose wool, flax, or cotton, ready for drawing and twisting.
4. v. To split or become split into slivers.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A piece, as of wood, roughly or irregularly broken, rent, or cut off or out, generally lengthwise or with the grain; a splinter: as, to get a sliver under one's fingernail; the lightning tore off great slivers of bark; hence, any fragment; a small bit.
2. n. In spinning, a continuous strand of wool, cotton, or other fiber, in a loose untwisted condition, ready for slubbing or roving.
3. n. A small wooden instrument used in spinning yarn.
4. n. The side of a small fish cut off in one piece from head to tail, to be used as bait; a sort of kibblings.
5. n. A very fine edge left at the end of a piece of timber.
6. n. plural The loose breeches or slops of the early part of the seventeenth century.
7. To cut or divide into long thin pieces, or into very small pieces; cut or rend lengthwise; splinter; break or tear off.
8. To cut each side of (a fish) away in one piece from head to tail; take two slivers from. See sliver, n., 4.
9. To split; become split.

Wiktionary

1. n. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
2. 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.
3. n. Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
4. n. US, New York A narrow high-rise apartment building.
5. v. transitive To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
2. n. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment, as of glass; a splinter.
3. 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 preceeds spinning.
4. n. Local, U.S. Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. break up into splinters or slivers
2. v. form into slivers
3. n. a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
4. n. a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
5. v. divide into slivers or splinters