quiver n.
the vagina.
Poems (1821) 26: It settis not madynis als To latt men lowis thair laice, Nor clym about meis halfs, To clap, to kiss, nor braice, Nor round in secreit place; Sic treitment is a trane To cleive thair quiver-caice. | ||
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 35: If haply they perceive that he esteemeth not brousid ware, but is enamoured with virginity, they have a fine cast [...] to make Joan Silverpin as good a maid as if she had never come at stews, nor opened to any man her quiver. | ||
Disputation Betweene a Hee and a Shee Conny-Catcher (1923) 6: An harlot, whose quiuer is open to euery arrow. | ||
‘A Mans Yard’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 10: And every wench, by her owne will, / Would keepe [it] in her quiver still. | ||
Epigrams No. 368: To his wife he pleasantly did say, ‘Sith Straungers lodge their Arrowes in thy quiver [...] How all our children me so much resemble’. | ||
‘On Luce Morgan, a Common Whore’ in | (1969) 213: Here lies black Luce, that Pickt-hatch drab [...] Was lecherous as any sparrow, / her quiver ope to ever arrow.||
Valiant Knight 11: [I] travell’d ... strange Countries ... And for my arrow still found quivers. | ||
‘The Riddle’ in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 72: It is a Shaft of Cupid’s cut, / ’Twill serve to rove, to Prick, to but; / There’s never a Maid, but by her will / Will keep it in her Quiver still. | ||
in Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 72: It is a Shaft of Cupid’s cut, / ’Twill serve to rove, to Prick, to butt. / There’s never a maid but, by her will, / Will keep it in her quiver still. | ||
‘Butcher’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 214: Long time he had boldly defi’d CUPID’s quiver. |
In phrases
(US black) of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
in | Up Jumped the Devil 207: Robert [Johnson] often used the vernacular that was used daily by the Delta sharecroppers he played for. He sang countless expressions along the lines of [...] ‘makin’ a spread,’ and ‘quiverin’ down’ (for intercourse).