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quiver

qui·ver

UK/ˈkwɪvə/ US/ˈkwɪvɚ/ uncommon archaic obsolete
verb (3) noun (4)

verb

1.

shake with fast, tremulous movements

  • “His nostrils palpitated”
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2.

move back and forth very rapidly

  • “the candle flickered”
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3.

move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

  • “the city pulsated with music and excitement”
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noun

1.

an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

  • “a frisson of surprise shot through him”
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2.

a shaky motion

  • “the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe”
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3.

case for holding arrows

4.

Origin

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kokar (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word. The mathematical sense originated as German Köcher in a 1972 paper by Pierre Gabriel; it was likely chosen because a quiver contains arrows, while a digraph contains directed edges (also called "arrows").

Phrases

  • arrow in the quiver
  • Auslander-Reiten quiver
  • quiver tree

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