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quiverful

noun

Etymology

From quiver + -ful.

  1. derived from *kökexür✻ — “leather vessel for liquids”
  2. derived from *kokar✻
  3. derived from quivre
  4. inherited from quiver
  5. suffixed as quiverful — “quiver + ful”

Definitions

  1. The amount held by a quiver

    • 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.
    • 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.

  2. A large amount.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA