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Quiver vs Quiverful - What's the difference?

quiver | quiverful |

As nouns the difference between quiver and quiverful

is that quiver is (weaponry) a container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun while quiverful is the amount held by a quiver.

As an adjective quiver

is (archaic) nimble, active.

As a verb quiver

is to shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.

quiver

English

(wikipedia quiver)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) quiver, from (etyl) quiveir, from (etyl) ).Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Köcher” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005). Replaced early modern (etyl) cocker. More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
  • * 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing , Act I, Scene I, line 271:
    • Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
  • * 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 39:
    • Arrows were carried in quiver , called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
  • (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
    • He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver .
  • (obsolete)
  • Shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion.
  • (mathematics) A multidigraph.

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , from (etyl) *cwifer

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Nimble, active.
  • * 1598 , William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II , Act III, Scene II, line 281:
    • 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.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) quiveren, probably from the adjective.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
  • * 1593 , William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus , Act II, Scene III, line 12:
    • 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.
  • * Addison
    • And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

    quiverful

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The amount held by a quiver
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Charles Egbert Craddock, title=The Frontiersmen, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In the presence of the two delegations the mediating Governor had taken an arrow and shown them with what ease it could be broken; then how impossible he found it to break a quiverful of arrows, thus demonstrating the strength in union. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Jack London, title=Adventure, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back. }}
  • A large amount.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Agnes Deans Cameron, title=The New North, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The farm of Sheridan Lawrence, exhibiting its wide-stretching wheat-fields, some heads of which counted seventy-one kernels, with its patches of one-pound potatoes, twelve-foot sunflowers, and its quiverful of happy, tow-headed children, gives as sweet a picture of Canadian thrift and happiness as one would wish to see. }}

    Related terms

    * Quiverfull