quiverful
English
Noun
quiverful (plural quiverfuls or quiversful)
- The amount held by a quiver
- 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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