Definitions for quilled

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Spelling: [kwild]

IPA: /kwɪld/

Quilled is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in quilled (deillqu).

Definitions for quilled

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.

adjective

1. rolled or incurved into a narrow tubular form.

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 quilled

First recorded in 1720-30; quill + -ed³

Examples for quilled

At its feeble cry, Kaug, the porcupine, raised his quilled head.

quilled or fluted cap-borders soon become limp and formless with the damp; so also do gauze or glac ribbons.

Used to blazon the quills of feathers: thus, a blue feather having its quill golden is blazoned—A feather az., quilled or.

His wings have been quilled thrice, and are now up again: he will be able to fly after us to Ireland, if he be willing.

The deep red double daisy; in this the petals are usually tubular or quilled.

Yolanda's wonderful "t" was certainly the most stupendous single letter ever quilled.

If their cousins whom we found just now were like Chrysanthemums, these are like quilled Dahlias.

I have "quilled" for her many a time—that is, run the yarn off the reel into spools for use in the shuttle.

At one he bought some gloves for Mrs. Woodhouse, and at another some delicate, quilled chrysanthemums caught his eye.

In one hand was a wand of red-dyed wood with a beaded and quilled amulet at the end.