† to-ˈshiver, v. Obs.
Also to-shever.
[f. to-2 + shiver v. So MHG. ze-, zer-schiveren.]
1. trans. To break into shivers, shatter, splinter.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 113 Ure helende..alto shiurede þe ȝiaten and in wende. c 1300 [see to-crush]. c 1435 Torr. Portugal 1172 Hors and man down he bore, And alle to-sheverd his sheld. 1470–85 Malory Arthur ii. x. 87 They..smoten to gyders and al to sheuered their speres. |
2. intr. To fly to shivers, break into splinters.
| 13.. K. Alis. 2728 The scharpe spere gynneth al to⁓schivere. c 1381 Chaucer Parl. Foules 493 The noyse of ffoules..So loude ronge..Þat wele y went þe wode had Al to-sheuered [v.r. Alto-shyuered]. c 1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 5156 His sheld to-sheuered euen in twoo. c 1530 Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 270 Bothe theyr speres all to sheuered to theyr fystes. |