quiver

IPA: kwˈɪvɝ

noun

  • (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
  • (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
  • (obsolete) A vulva.
  • (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
  • (mathematics) A multidigraph.
  • Ellipsis of Quiver Creek.: A creek in Illinois, United States

verb

  • (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion.

adjective

  • (archaic) Nimble, active.
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Examples of "quiver" in Sentences

  • A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.
  • The 'my Wilfrid' made the owner of the name quiver with satisfaction.
  • The last, thin quiver in the Wingnut quill, of course, is blaming the media.
  • The fourth, and perhaps the most important arrow in OSPE's quiver is direct intervention.
  • God's quiver is full of arrows; he is never at a loss for ways and means to punish a wicked people.
  • Their quiver is all-devouring, as the grave opened to receive the dead: as many as are the arrows, so many are the deaths.
  • "Polished," that is, free from all rust, implies His unsullied purity. in ... quiver ... hid me -- Like a sword in its scabbard, or a shaft in the quiver, Messiah, before His appearing, was hid with God, ready to be drawn forth at the moment God saw fit [Hengstenberg]; also always protected by God, as the arrow by the quiver (Isa 51: 16).

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