Shroud vs Quiver - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between shroud and quiver

is that shroud is that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment while quiver is (weaponry) a container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

As verbs the difference between shroud and quiver

is that shroud is to cover with a shroud while quiver is to shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.

As an adjective quiver is

(archaic) nimble, active.

shroud

English

(wikipedia shroud)

Noun

(en noun)

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

* Sandys

swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

* Shakespeare

a dead man in his shroud

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

* Byron

Jura answers through her misty shroud .

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

* Chapman

The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.

* Withals

a vault, or shroud , as under a church

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

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(nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.

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One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Verb

(en verb)

To cover with a shroud.

* Francis Bacon

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.

To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.

* Dryden

Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.

To take shelter or harbour.

* Milton

If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

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.

References

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.