quiver

noun

1. 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.”

2. (figuratively)A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.

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

3. (obsolete)A vulva.
4. (obsolete)The collective noun for cobras.
5. A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
6. The act of quivering.

   “I feel a quiver every time we kiss / The sky's the limit with a love like this”

adj

1. (archaic)Nimble, active.

   “[...] 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.”

verb

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

   “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.”

   “Next moment with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale.”

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

name

1. A stream in Illinois, United States; in full, Quiver Creek.
2. A township in Mason County, Illinois, United States, named after Quiver Creek.