Quiver

Quick meaning: Quiver is a noun meaning (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

Meaning

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
2. (mathematics) A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
3. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.
4. The act of quivering.
5. (obsolete) A vulva.
6. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
7. (archaic) Nimble, active.

Example Sentences

He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.

And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

And the moonlight on the Church seemed to shift and quiver—some pigeons perhaps had been disturbed up there.

Word Forms

• quivers
• quivering
• quivered

Synonyms for quiver

Depending on context, synonyms include tremble, quake, shudder, shiver, flutter, tremor.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flutter, chill, flicker, flitter, vibration, tingle.

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