Quiver vs. Sheaf — What's the Difference?

A quiver is a container for holding arrows, bolts, darts, or javelins. It can be carried on an archer's body, the bow, or the ground, depending on the type of shooting and the archer's personal preference.

A bundle of cut stalks of grain or similar plants bound with straw or twine.

To shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement.

A collection of items held or bound together

To tremble, as from cold or strong emotion.

An archer's quiver.

The act or motion of quivering.

To gather and bind into a bundle.

A portable case for holding arrows.

A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

A case full of arrows.

Any collection of things bound together.

A collection or store; arsenal

A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.

A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

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

(mechanical) A sheave.

(obsolete) A vulva.

(mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.

(obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.

(transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves

(mathematics) A multidigraph.

(intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

(archaic) Nimble, active.

A sheave.

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

A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

Nimble; active.

Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, - usually twenty-four.

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

To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.

The act or state of quivering; a tremor.

To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.

A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing

An almost pleasurable sensation of fright;

A shaky motion;

Case for holding arrows

The act of vibrating

Shake with fast, tremulous movements;

Move back and forth very rapidly;

Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;