quiver

UK /ˈkwɪvə/ US /ˈkwɪvə/
noun 5name 2adj 1verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.

2

A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.

He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.

3

A vulva.

4

The collective noun for cobras.

5

A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.

adj

1

Nimble, active.

[...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.

verb

1

To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.

The birds chaunt melodie on euerie buſh, The ſnakes^([sic – meaning ſnake]) lies rolled in the chearefull ſunne, The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde, And make a checkerd ſhadow on the ground: [...]

And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

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