Definitions for quills

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quills quill

Spelling: [kwil]

IPA: /kwɪl/

Quills is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in quills (illqsu).

Definitions for quills

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 quills

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

Examples for quills

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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