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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.
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A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.figuratively
- He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
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A vulva.obsolete
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The collective noun for cobras.obsolete
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A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
quiver
'kwivә8 senses · 53 ms
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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.
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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: [...]
- And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
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The act of quivering.
- I feel a quiver every time we kiss / The sky's the limit with a love like this