Shiver

Definitions

1. The act of shivering.
2. A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
3. Collective noun for a group of sharks.
   collective
4. A surname.
5. A bodily response to early hypothermia.
6. A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
   Norfolk
7. A thin slice; a shive.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
8. A variety of blue slate.
9. A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
10. A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
11. A spindle.
    UK, dialectal, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“A shiver went up my spine.”

“But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own⟳ way; and presently Selwyn lay⟳ prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.”

“a shiver of their own⟳ loaf”

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