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.
A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
A vulva.
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.
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: [...]
A stream in Illinois, United States; in full, Quiver Creek.
A township in Mason County, Illinois, United States, named after Quiver Creek.
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”), s...
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