WordNet
adj. resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards" [syn: splintery]
Usage examples of "slivery".
He worked for several hours, stacking ties, and then he was tired, and sat down, soaked with sweat, his hands raw from the rough, slivery wood.
Its reflection danced in the slivery lake ice, not quite solid enough for skating.
His tongue drew a slivery trail over her stomach, sudden goose-pimples making her flesh hard and brittle.
White hair slicked back on a streamlined skull, tightly braided in a thick, slivery cable that hung all the way to the leather seat.
At the top of the hill, under shadow of the old bulwarks, he turned and looked back upon the flat Marshland, intersected with the slivery ribboned water of the dykes, and spread out beneath him like a vast map.
The wood was slivery as she ran her hand down it to the handle under the rusty latch and waited with a pleasing tingle to imagine just the right frightening thing to be hiding inside.
Its mouth was a quivery, oozing triangle of slivery flesh that spoke in complex flatulences.
The large slivery ship hung over head in a moment of silence as it retracted its weapon.