QUILL
/kwÉŖl/
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Definition
/kwÉŖl/
noun
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- A pen made from a feather.
- Any pen.“He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.”
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
verb
- To pierce or be pierced with quills.
- To write.
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
Source: Wiktionary
