Quiverful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quiverful is a noun meaning The amount held by a quiver.
Meaning
The amount held by a quiver.
More Meanings
- A large amount.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- quiverfuls
- quiversful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quiver, paddleful, shakerful, pocketful, syringeful, thimbleful.
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