Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cleave; split; divide.
  • noun A slice; a chip.
  • To slide.
  • To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep; idle away time.
  • To slip on; put on: with on.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To sneak.
  • transitive verb obsolete To cut; to split; to separate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb dialectal, Northern England, Scotland To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.
  • verb transitive To cut; split; separate.
  • verb transitive To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.
  • noun dialectal A slice or sliver; slip, chip.

Etymologies

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Perhaps related to slip.

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From Middle English sliven, from Old English slīfan ("to cleave, split"), from Proto-Germanic *slībanan (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“to cut”).

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