Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quiverful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables: quiv-er-ful
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The amount held by a quiver

noun

A large amount.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"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."

Etymology

From quiver + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: quiver

Inflected Forms

quiverfuls (plural) quiversful (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Quiverfull

Questions

What does quiverful mean?: The amount held by a quiver
Where does quiverful come from?: From quiver + -ful.

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