sliftern.
/ˈslɪftə/ Now dialect.† 2. A splinter. Obsolete.
1. A cleft or crack; a crevice.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 26 The chapping, clefts, or slifters in the body, which come by cold.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 691 There are also certaine slifters or clifts in the hooues of horsses, which are cured in one nights space.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fente, a cleft, rift, slifter, chinke.
?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. (ed. 2) 6 Oth Leawp-hoyles, on th' Slifters ith Leath Woughs.
a1800 in S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2)
1879 E. Waugh Chimney Corner 170 There isn't a slifter, nor a ginnel, nor a gorse-bush.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > splinter
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spilter?1646
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1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ll 5 Henry the French king was slaine by the slifter of a speare broke vpon him.
Derivatives
ˈsliftered adj. riven asunder, cloven.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > broken > split, cleft, or cracked
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1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. C2 Straight chops a waue, and in his sliftred panch Downe fals our ship.
1866 E. Waugh Lancs. Songs (1870) 50 He toots abeawt, i' th slifter't cleawd To find a bit o' sky.
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