Usually means: Shake or tremble in speaking.
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  1. quaver: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quaver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quaver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quaver: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quaver: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quaver, quaver: Wordnik
  7. quaver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quaver: Wiktionary
  9. quaver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quaver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quaver: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Quaver, quaver: Dictionary.com
  13. quaver (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quaver: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quaver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quaver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quaver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quaver: Rhymezone
  19. Quaver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quaver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. quaver: Free Dictionary
  22. quaver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. quaver: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. quaver: Legal dictionary

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  1. quaver: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. quaver: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quaver: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. quaver: The Folk File
  3. quaver: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See quavered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A trembling shake.
noun:  A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
noun:  (music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
verb:  To shake in a trembling manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
verb:  (transitive) To utter quaveringly.

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