quiver.
A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
Meaning & usage
A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
A vulva.
The collective noun for cobras.
A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
Where this word comes from
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").
Nimble, active.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).
To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.
The act of quivering.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.
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