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quiverfuls

quiverfuls is the plural of quiverful.

Meaning of quiverful

Noun

quiverful (plural quiverfuls or quiversful)

  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.1904, Charles Egbert Craddock, The Frontiersmen
  2. A large amount.
    • 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...1909, Agnes Deans Cameron, The New North

Questions about quiverfuls

What is quiverfuls the plural of?
Quiverfuls is the plural of quiverful.

Words near quiverfuls in the dictionary

  1. quiverer
  2. quiverers
  3. quiverful
  4. Quiverfull
  5. Quiverfulls
  6. quiverfuls
  7. quiverin'
  8. quivering
  9. quiveringly
  10. quiverings
  11. quiverish

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