Quiver

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English

File:Bow recurve quiver.jpg
bow and quiver

Noun

Quiver (plural Quivers)
  1. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
    • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271:
      Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:
      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. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
    He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
  3. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
  4. Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
  5. (mathematics) A multidigraph.

Adjective

Quiver (comparative more Quiver, superlative most Quiver)

  1. (archaic) Nimble, active.
    • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281:
      […] 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

Quiver (third-person singular simple present Quivers, present participle Quivering, simple past and past participle Quivered)

  1. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
    • 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene III, line 12:
      The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind And make a checker'd shadow on the ground.

Adjectives for Quiver

solemn ; convulsive; subtle.

Adverbs for Quiver

nervously; tremulously; helplessly; feverishly; pathetically; pitiably; miserably; visibly; angrily; grievously; timidly; affrightedly; curiously.

Adverbs for Quiver

nervously; exasperatedly; wantonly; abnormally; violently; sluggishly; markedly; excitedly; passionately.

Thesaurus

Bebung, all-overs, bale, bang, be cold, beat, beating, bicker, bindle, bob, bobble, bolt, boot, bounce, bouquet, budget, bump, bundle, charge, chatter, chill, cold shivers, cold sweat, cower, dance, dancing, deck, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dither, dithers, dodder, fagot, falter, fardel, fasces, fascine, fidget, fidgetiness, fidgets, flap, flicker, flickering, flickering light, flip out, flit, flitter, flop, fluctuate, flush, flutter, fluttering, freak out on, freeze, freeze to death, get high on, glance, glancing light, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, go pitapat, grimace, grow cold, halt, have a chill, have an ague, have goose pimples, have the fidgets, have the shakes, heave, heaving, heebie-jeebies, horripilate, hustle, inquietude, jactitate, jar, jerk, jig, jigget, jiggle, jimjams, jitters, jog, joggle, jollies, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, jumps, kick, lambency, lift, light show, limp, lose heat, nosegay, oscillate, pack, package, packet, palpitate, palpitation, pant, panting, parcel, perish with cold, pitapat, pitter-patter, play, play of light, posy, quake, quaking, quaver, quavering, quivering, quivers, restlessness, rictus, roll, rouleau, rush, rush of emotion, sensation, shake, shake all over, shakes, shaking, sheaf, shimmer, shiver, shivers, shock, shudder, sparkle, spasm, splutter, sputter, squirm, surge of emotion, sweat, swell, swell with emotion, teeter, thrill, thrill to, throb, throbbing, tic, tingle, tingle with excitement, tingling, titillation, toss, toss and turn, totter, tremble, trembles, trembling, tremolando, tremolant, tremolo, tremor, tremor of excitement, trepidation, trepidity, trill, trillet, trilleto, trillo, truss, tumble, turn on to, twinkle, twist and turn, twitch, twitter, unrest, vibrate, vibrato, waver, wiggle, willies, wobble, wriggle, writhe

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kwĭvər, IPA: [kʍɪvə(ɹ)], /kwɪvə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /kWIv@(r\)/, /kwIv@(r\)/
  • Rhymes: -ɪvə(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English quiver from Anglo-Norman quiveir (compare Old French quivre, cuevre, coivre "quiver"), of Germanic origin (perhaps via Late Latin cucurum "quiver"), from Low Frankish *kokari "quiver, case for arrows" from West Germanic *kukārijaz from Proto-Germanic *kukur- (“container, case”). Akin to Old High German kohhar, kohhari "quiver" (German Köcher "quiver"), Old Saxon kokari "quiver", Old Dutch cocar "quiver" (Dutch koker "quiver"), Old English cocer, cocur "quiver, container, case, sheath". More at cocker.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cwiver, from Old English *cwifer

Etymology 3

From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.

Translations

Noun

arrow container
a ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons
collective noun for cobras
shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion

Verb

To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion
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