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quiverful

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quiverful [ˈkwɪvəfʊl]
n
1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Archery) the amount that a quiver can hold
2. Literary a fair number or full complement a quiverful of children
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quiverful
n (of arrows)Köchervoll m


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But there are probably precious few place-names that can be made to rhyme with quiverful, so the verbal mischief from one of the most-loved singers of his generation can easily be overlooked.
Paul Nicholls could easily saddle the first three home again, because the third of his quiverful of arrows is Neptune Collonges, who ran the race of his life when third a year ago.
Rather, it was a metaphorical act - to trigger off a quiverful of new ideas and let them cleave through the air thick with outdated notions.
 
 
 
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