The Meaning of quill

• (n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
• (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.
• (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
• (n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen.
• (n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
• (n.) The tube of a musical instrument.
• (n.) Something having the form of a quill
• (n.) The fold or plain of a ruff.
• (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
• (n.) A hollow spindle.
• (v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
• (v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.

Synonyms

quill pen , flight feather , pinion , quill feather , calamus , shaft

Rhymes

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