Definitions

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  • adjective resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points

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Examples

  • Most of the bluing is worn from the barrel and the bold handle is slivery but it's still a tack driver.

    Best Bolt Action deer Rifles 2009

  • Most of the bluing is worn from the barrel and the bold handle is slivery but it's still a tack driver.

    Best Bolt Action deer Rifles 2009

  • The floor groaned underneath them, then cracked, and the center of the slivery spider dropped out of sight.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • Nan and Phoebe laughed as soft, slivery and bristled as drunken angels tinkling.

    NEEDS FROM THE FOREST 2009

  • Nan and Phoebe laughed as soft, slivery and bristled as drunken angels tinkling.

    NEEDS FROM THE FOREST 2009

  • The slivery flesh stuck on highly arched ribs, and where the head was, I touched two polished bones -- perhaps horns.

    Karin Badt: Clips from India: Rameswaram (i) 2008

  • PS a woman recognized the MLA program in my hand and asked the direction to the Hilton today as I was trucking off to the other hotel ... she had a black pencil skirt, sheer black hose, and these slivery strappy platform shoes with an incredible heel.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

  • Only thing I can think of worse than dusty black pepper: slivery carrot sticks.

    Dustless black pepper. Ann Althouse 2007

  • I don't mind slivery carrot sticks as long as they're not embedded in Jell-O™ brand gelatin, but I don't think I've ever seen silvery carrot sticks.

    Dustless black pepper. Ann Althouse 2007

  • The floor groaned underneath them, then cracked, and the center of the slivery spider dropped out of sight.

    SPECIALS SCOTT WESTERFELD 2006

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