English
Pronunciation
/kwÄvÉ�r/
[kw̥ɪv�(ɹ)]
:Rhymes:English:-ɪv�(r)|Rhymes: -ɪv�(r)
Etymology 1
Via Middle English and Old French from West Germanic *kokar-, whence also Old English cocer, Old High German kohhar
Noun
Image:Bow_recurve_quiver.jpg|thumb|right|150px|bow and quiver
en-noun
- context|Weapon A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
#:Quotations
#:*1598: Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly. Benedick:I look for an earthquake too then. — William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271.
#:*1786: Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39.
Translations
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trans-top|arrow container
Arabic: ARchar|جعبة (já�ba)
CJKV Characters: � (fú)
Danish: kogger, pilekogger
Finnish: nuoliviini, viini
French: carquois m
German: Köcher m
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Hungarian: tegez
Italian: faretra f
Latin: pharetra f
Lithuanian: str�lin� f
Old English: cocer, bogefodder|bogef�dder
Polish: ko�czan m
Russian: кол�ан /kol�án/ m
Serbian: tobolac
Spanish: aljaba f
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Etymology 2
From the adjective.
Intransitive verb
en-verb
- To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
#:Quotations
#:*1593: The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind And make a checker'd shadow on the ground. — William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene III, line 12.
Translations
Finnish: väristä
Japanese: ���� (����, yurameku)
Etymology 3
Probably originally symbolic.
Adjective
quiver
- obsolete Nimble, active.
#:Quotations
#:*1598: ... 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. — William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281.
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