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▸ noun: (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
▸ noun: (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
▸ noun: A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
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