quiverful
Etymology
From quiver + -ful.
quiverful means the amount held by a quiver. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- 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.”
- 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 one would wish to see.”