quiverful
English
Etymology
quiver + -ful
Noun
quiverful (plural quiverfuls or quiversful)
- The amount held by a quiver
- 1904, Charles Egbert Craddock, The Frontiersmen:
- In the presence of the two delegations the mediating Governor had taken an arrow and shown them with what ease it could be broken; then how impossible he found it to break a quiverful of arrows, thus demonstrating the strength in union.
- 1911, Jack London, Adventure:
- Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back.
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- A large amount.
- 1909, Agnes Deans Cameron, The New North:
- The farm of Sheridan Lawrence, exhibiting its wide-stretching wheat-fields, some heads of which counted seventy-one kernels, with its patches of one-pound potatoes, twelve-foot sunflowers, and its quiverful of happy, tow-headed children, gives as sweet a picture of Canadian thrift and happiness as one would wish to see.
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Related terms
- Quiverfull