quave

See also: Quave

English

Etymology

From Middle English quaven, cwavien (“to tremble”). More at quaver.

Verb

quave (third-person singular simple present quaves, present participle quaving, simple past and past participle quaved)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.
    • 13??, William Langland, Piers Plowman
      The wal waggede and cleef, and al the world quaved.

Noun

quave (plural quaves)

  1. A shaking; trembling.

Middle English

Verb

quave

  1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of quaven
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.