quiverful
Britishnoun
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the amount that a quiver can hold
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literary a fair number or full complement
a quiverful of children
Example Sentences
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But it is an agricultural giant, home to 30m pigs and a quiverful of global brands.
From Economist • Jan. 2, 2014
While Eden made temples with his hands and Bidault toyed with his left ear, Molotov let loose a quiverful of barbs at the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
On being asked the other day how he had contrived to maintain such a quiverful, he answered, "I've always managed to get along all right so far; I never wanted for vittals, sir, anyhow."
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
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.
From Adventure by London, Jack
In a copse beside them a thrush shot into the air a quiverful of clear melody.
From Witness for the Defense by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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