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 weie 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.
