quiver
A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow,…A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
» The boy quivered at the sound.
Meaning
6 sensesA container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
Köcher
колча́нkolčán, тулtul
сагайда́кsahajdák, колча́нkolčán, ту́лаtúla
(figuratively)A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
дрожьdrožʹ, тре́петtrépet
тремті́нняtremtínnja, тре́морtrémor
A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
The act of quivering.
the act of vibrating
(obsolete)A vulva.
(obsolete)The collective noun for cobras.
Examples
36 sentencesThe boy quivered at the sound.
Her voice was quivering with anger.
ruЕё голос дрожал от гнева.
deIhre Stimme bebte vor Wut.
This could make any girl quiver.
The leaves quivered in the breeze.
deDie Blätter zitterten in der Brise.
In mathematics, a quiver is a digraph.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of DutFrom 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.
From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.
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