Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun As much or as many as will fill a quiver: generally used with allusion to Ps. cxxvii. 5: “Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them ”
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- noun The amount held by a
quiver - noun A
large amount.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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Not 'quiverful' of children all religious and stuff.
Someone please send this guy some condoms! Zenmomma 2008
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That made them sound like a "quiverful" family to me.
Planet Atheism Hemant Mehta 2010
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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.
Chapter 22 2010
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I've heard of the quiverful movement before the Dugger family is a gross commercialization of it.
"Quiverfull"? Nomad 2009
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If there are occasionally a few transitional paragraphs between the coupling of her tight, wet, hot... self, and his hard, needy, throbbing...self and the second, even more quiverful coupling of said genitals, I find that my sisters are simply flipping pages straight to the good stuff, as it were.
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If there are occasionally a few transitional paragraphs between the coupling of her tight, wet, hot... self, and his hard, needy, throbbing...self and the second, even more quiverful coupling of said genitals, I find that my sisters are simply flipping pages straight to the good stuff, as it were.
Archive 2007-12-01 Jay 2007
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There is also a quiverful of legends pre-dating the actual appearance of Robin, himself.
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There is also a quiverful of legends pre-dating the actual appearance of Robin, himself.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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If they even got to that point at all–if they were not part of such a system, they may have decided to not be quiverful, especially in light of her illness.
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