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Definition of 'quill' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) quill
one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.

2.  quill
the hard, hollow, basal part of a feather.

3.  quill
a feather, as of a goose, formed into a pen for writing.

4.  quill
one of the hollow spines on a porcupine or hedgehog.

5.  quill
a plectrum of a harpsichord.

6.  quill
a roll of bark, as of cinnamon, formed in drying.

7.  quill
a reed, spindle, or tube upon which filling yarn is wound for weaving.

8.  quill
Mach.

9.  quill
a hollow shaft or sleeve through which another independently rotating shaft may pass.

10. (v.t.) quill
to arrange (fabric) in flutes or cylindrical ridges.

11.  quill
to wind on a quill, as yarn.

12.  quill
to penetrate with, or as if with, a quill or quills.

13.  quill
to extract a quill or quills from.

Etymology:  (1375–1425; late ME quil; cf. LG quiele, G Kiel)

Definition of 'quill' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) quill, quill pen
pen made from a bird's feather

2. (noun) quill
a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog

3. (noun) flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather
any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird

4. (noun) quill, calamus, shaft
the hollow spine of a feather


Definition of 'quill' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) quill
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

2. (noun) quill
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

3. (noun) quill
a spine of the hedgehog or porcupine

4. (noun) quill
the pen of a squid. See Pen

5. (noun) quill
the plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments

6. (noun) quill
the tube of a musical instrument

7. (noun) quill
something having the form of a quill

8. (noun) quill
the fold or plain of a ruff

9. (noun) quill
a spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle

10. (noun) quill
a hollow spindle

11. (verb) quill
to plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle

12. (verb) quill
to wind on a quill, as thread or yarn


Translation of 'quill' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a large feather, especially the feather of a goose, made into a pen.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: penveer Arabic flag Arabic: ريشَة طائِر Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: перо
Brazilian flag Brazilian: pena Czech flag Czech: brk German flag German: die Feder
Danish flag Danish: fjerpen Greek flag Greek: φτερό (συν. χήνας), πένα Spanish flag Spanish: pluma
Estonian flag Estonian: (hane)sulg Farsi flag Farsi: شاه پر Finnish flag Finnish: sulkakynä
French flag French: plume (d'oie) Hebrew flag Hebrew: נוֹצָה Hindi flag Hindi: पंख
Croatian flag Croatian: badrljica Hungarian flag Hungarian: toll(szár) (madáré) Indonesian flag Indonesian: bulu angsa
Icelandic flag Icelandic: fjöðurstafur Italian flag Italian: penna (d'oca), calamo Japanese flag Japanese: 羽ペン
Korean flag Korean: (새의) 깃 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: plunksna Latvian flag Latvian: zoss spalva rakstīšanai
Malay flag Malay: bulu pelepah Dutch flag Dutch: ganzeveer Norwegian flag Norwegian: fjærpenn
Polish flag Polish: pióro (gęsie) Persian flag Persian: شاه پر Pashto flag Pashto: بڼه (لويه بڼكه)،شهپر،دپرو
Portuguese flag Portuguese: pena Romanian flag Romanian: pană Russian flag Russian: гусиное перо
Slovak flag Slovak: brko Slovenian flag Slovenian: gosje pero Serbian flag Serbian: pero
Swedish flag Swedish: gåspenna Thai flag Thai: ก้านขนนกหรือขนห่านที่ใช้ท Turkish flag Turkish: iri ve sert tüy
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 鵝毛筆 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: перо Urdu flag Urdu: پرندے کے پر کی بنی قلم
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: lông cánh; lông đuôi Chinese flag Chinese: 鹅毛笔,大翎毛

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