shiver

Meanings

Verb

• To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
• To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
• To break into splinters or fragments.

Noun

• The act of shivering.
• A bodily response to early hypothermia.^Wp
• A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
• A thin slice; a shive.
• A variety of blue slate.
• A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
• A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
• A spindle.
• Collective noun for a group of sharks

Origin

• Origin Unknown, perhaps an alteration of chavel.
• From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer).
• Origin Unknown