Definitions for Quill

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Quill quill

Spelling: [kwil]

IPA: /kwɪl/

Quill is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Quill (illqu).

Definitions for Quill

noun

1. one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
2. the hard, hollow, basal part of a feather.
3. a feather, as of a goose, formed into a pen for writing.
4. one of the hollow spines on a porcupine or hedgehog.
5. a plectrum of a harpsichord.
6. a roll of bark, as of cinnamon, formed in drying.
7. a reed or other hollow stem on which yarn is wound.
8. a bobbin or spool.
9. a toothpick.
10. Machinery. a hollow shaft or sleeve through which another independently rotating shaft may pass. a shaft, joined to and supported by two other shafts or machines, for transmitting motion from one to the other. a rotating toolholder used in boring or facing internal angles.
11. a musical pipe, especially one made from a hollow reed.

verb (used with object)

1. Textiles. to arrange (fabric) in flutes or cylindrical ridges, as along the edge of a garment, hem, etc. to wind on a quill, as yarn.
2. to penetrate with, or as if with, a quill or quills.
3. to extract a quill or quills from:

Origin of Quill

1375-1425; late Middle English quil; compare Low German quiele, German Kiel

Examples for Quill

Most of West Plains learned the news from the front-page article in The quill on March 21.

In Aslam's words, it's like “writing very fast with a quill whose other end is on fire.'”

The second feature involves a quill and inkwell that will also be featured on the front of the note.

The Sibyl picked them up and wrote with an eagle's quill on each.

His only nourishment was milk, drawn from a bottle through a quill.

“Both the quill and the inkwell are copper until you move the note,” said Lambert.

In reality they are birds of the same feather: each has a quill and uses it.

Edmund Morgan liked, especially, to teach his students how to make and sharpen a quill.

When he flaps his wings or even moves a quill the thunder peals.

From his poem, "On receiving an eagle's quill from Lake Superior."