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quiver

noun
/ˈkwɪvə/UK/ˈkwɪvɚ/CA

Etymology

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kokar (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word. The mathematical sense originated as German Köcher in a 1972 paper by Pierre Gabriel; it was likely chosen because a quiver contains arrows, while a digraph contains directed edges (also called "arrows").

  1. derived from *kökexür✻ — “leather vessel for liquids”
  2. derived from *kokar✻
  3. derived from quivre
  4. inherited from quiver

Definitions

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

    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. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. The collective noun for cobras.

    2. A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.
      • Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.

    5. The act of quivering.

      • I feel a quiver every time we kiss / The sky's the limit with a love like this

    6. A stream in Illinois, United States

      A stream in Illinois, United States; in full, Quiver Creek.

    7. A township in Mason County, Illinois, United States, named after Quiver Creek.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA