quill

Meanings

1. 1
   noun The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
2. 2
   noun A pen made from a feather.
3. 3
   noun Any pen.
4. 4
   noun 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.
5. 5
   noun A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
6. 6
   noun The pen of a squid.
7. 7
   noun The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
8. 8
   noun The tube of a musical instrument.
9. 9
   noun Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
10. 10
    verb To pierce or be pierced with quills.
11. 11
    verb To write.
12. 12
    verb To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
13. 13
    verb To decorate with quillwork.
14. 14
    verb To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).