different between tug vs quiver

English

Etymology

From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *tug?n? (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with Middle Low German togen (“to draw”), Middle High German zogen (“to pull, tear off”), Icelandic toga (“to pull, draw”). Related to tee, tow.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?g, IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

tug (third-person singular simple present tugs, present participle tugging, simple past and past participle tugged)

1. (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort

   The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.

2. (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly

   He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.

3. (transitive) to tow by tugboat

Derived terms

• tug down
• tug up

Translations

Noun

tug (plural tugs)

1. A sudden powerful pull.

   • At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
2. (nautical) A tugboat.
3. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

4. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
5. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
6. (slang) An act of masturbation.

   He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.

Derived terms

• tug of war

Translations

Anagrams

• GUT, UTG, gut

Elfdalian

Noun

tug n

1. train

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Icelandic

Noun

tug

1. inflection of tugur:
   1. indefinite accusative singular
   2. indefinite dative singular

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tug

1. past tense of thoir

Usage notes

• This is the dependent form, the basic form being thug.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw?v?/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: kw??v?r, IPA^(key): /?kw?v??/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: qui?ver

Etymology 1

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 *kukur (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern English cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

1. (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.

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

   He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.

3. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
4. (mathematics) A multidigraph.

Derived terms

• quiverful

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).

Adjective

quiver (comparative more quiver, superlative most quiver)

1. (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 Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.

Verb

quiver (third-person singular simple present quivers, present participle quivering, simple past and past participle quivered)

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

   Synonyms: tremble, quake, shudder, shiver

   • And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

Derived terms

• aquiver
• quivering
• quiversome

Translations

References

Further reading

• quiver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür or Hunnic. Doublet of coker.

Alternative forms

• quyver, qwyver, qwywere, qwyvere, whyver

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwiv?r/

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

1. A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)
2. (rare, vulgar) A vulva.

Descendants

• English: quiver

References

• “quiver, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Etymology 2

From Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).

Alternative forms

• quyver, quyvere, cwiver

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwiv?r/

Adjective

quiver

1. fast, speedy, rapid
2. energetic, vigourous, vibrant

Descendants

• English: quiver

References

• “quiver, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.