Quiver
adj, name, noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 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."
- 2 the act of vibrating wordnet
- 3 A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons. figuratively
"He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver."
- 4 case for holding arrows wordnet
- 5 A vulva. obsolete
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- 6 an almost pleasurable sensation of fright wordnet
- 7 The collective noun for cobras. obsolete
- 8 a shaky motion wordnet
- 9 A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
- 1 To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion. intransitive
"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: [...]"
- 2 move back and forth very rapidly wordnet
- 3 move with or as if with a regular alternating motion wordnet
- 4 shake with fast, tremulous movements wordnet
- 1 Nimble, active. archaic
"[...] 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."
- 1 A stream in Illinois, United States; in full, Quiver Creek.
- 2 A township in Mason County, Illinois, United States, named after Quiver Creek.
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More examples"In mathematics, a quiver is a directed graph."
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").
From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).
From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.
Corruption of the French Cuivre, from cuivre (“copper”).