shiver🔊

To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.

To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.

The act of shivering.

(medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.(Wp)

A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.

(Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh

(dialect) A thin slice; a shive.

(geology) A variety of blue slate.

(nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.

A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.

(dialect) A spindle.

To break into splinters or fragments.

(collective) Collective noun for a group of sharks.