Quiver tip: The very top (often brightly coloured) section of a feeder rod, used to identify bites, which bends and 'quivers' when a fish moves off with the bait. Like the test curve of a rod, quiver ...

They hung, appropriate for the season, like some glittering sheet of Halloween confetti, a shimmer of metallic orange and black created by the hundreds - maybe thousands - of monarch butterflies ...

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