shiver

shiver is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural. "All to shivers dashed." Milton.

[2] A thin slice; a shive. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "A shiver of their own loaf." Fuller. Of your soft bread, not but a shiver. Chaucer.

[3] A variety of blue slate.

[4] A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.

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

[6] A spindle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

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