Quill
noun
The sharp-pointed and hollow feather of a large bird, which was used for writing with ink in the past.
William Shakespeare wrote all his works using a quill and ink.
Often appears as...
- dip the quill
- quill and ink
noun
A hollow stiff spine on a porcupine or hedgehog, usually with sharp points at one end.
Watch out! The porcupine raises its quills when it feels threatened.
Often appears as...
- porcupine quills
- hedgehog quills
noun
The hollow tube in a feather.
A bird's quill is lighter than you might expect because it is hollow.
Often appears as...
- bird quill
- feather quill
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Technical
noun
A device for weaving in which the yarn is wound.
Weaving requires skill to handle the loom and the quill efficiently.
Often appears as...
- weaving quill
- yarn quill
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Technical
noun
The sharp-pointed and hollow feather of a large bird, which was used for writing with ink in the past.
William Shakespeare wrote all his works using a quill and ink.
Often appears as...
- dip the quill
- quill and ink
noun
A hollow stiff spine on a porcupine or hedgehog, usually with sharp points at one end.
Watch out! The porcupine raises its quills when it feels threatened.
Often appears as...
- porcupine quills
- hedgehog quills
noun
The hollow tube in a feather.
A bird's quill is lighter than you might expect because it is hollow.
Often appears as...
- bird quill
- feather quill
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A device for weaving in which the yarn is wound.
Weaving requires skill to handle the loom and the quill efficiently.
Often appears as...
- weaving quill
- yarn quill
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Writing
Quills were essential writing tools before the rise of modern pens, often seen in historical settings.
In medieval times, monks used a quill to transcribe manuscripts.
Pro Tip 2/3Archaic Feel
Using 'quill and ink' can evoke a sense of antiquity or traditionalism in literature or art.
She used a quill to pen her letters, giving them an old-fashioned touch.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Symbol
Quills can represent the concept of writing in cultural symbols and logos.
The society's emblem featured a quill to signify its dedication to literature.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Writing
Quills were essential writing tools before the rise of modern pens, often seen in historical settings.
In medieval times, monks used a quill to transcribe manuscripts.
Pro Tip 2/3Archaic Feel
Using 'quill and ink' can evoke a sense of antiquity or traditionalism in literature or art.
She used a quill to pen her letters, giving them an old-fashioned touch.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Symbol
Quills can represent the concept of writing in cultural symbols and logos.
The society's emblem featured a quill to signify its dedication to literature.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Writing
Quills were essential writing tools before the rise of modern pens, often seen in historical settings.
In medieval times, monks used a quill to transcribe manuscripts.
Pro Tip 2/3Archaic Feel
Using 'quill and ink' can evoke a sense of antiquity or traditionalism in literature or art.
She used a quill to pen her letters, giving them an old-fashioned touch.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Symbol
Quills can represent the concept of writing in cultural symbols and logos.
The society's emblem featured a quill to signify its dedication to literature.
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Crucial Waters PIPE...
tree almost in this emerald green world that you're looking straight up but if you were looking horizontally it's it's there's no ambient light it's pretty dark there's another picture made in fjord land of some animals called sea pens which a reminiscent of the old quill pens but these are like a type of
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Why do we have hair in...
filaments of the protein keratin that grow out of organs known as follicles, which go through cycles of growth and shedding. Across mammalian species, hairs have been modified for numerous purposes, ranging from the soft fluff covering rabbits to the rigid quills protecting porcupines.
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Safari Live - Day 202 PIPE...
with comfort otherwise you're gonna get hurt so I think that's what you did he just knew he's probably done it before and it worked for him just went in flattened it picked it up and he enjoyed it that very thick fatty layer on the back that holds all the quills that looked very tasty
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Safari Live - Day 322 PIPE...
quill is the one which used to drill the little holes here on the skin so that they can be able to put some of the traditional ingredients from the plants the powders in order to strengthen some of the people from various tribes so while we are waiting for him to go back
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Music gives voice to the...
composing music I've always felt that building new audiences requires updating the very idea of the composer from someone older guy with wig and a quill pen who's labouring away in isolation to a cultural ambassador and a collaborator who's deeply integrated in the
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Porcupine vs. Lions PIPE...
smart to fool around with this small piece those quills may be modified hairs but they are needle-sharp strong and there are plenty of them but the adults know is that porcupine needles can actually pierce the flesh of life and
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Porcupine vs. Lion PIPE...
quills may be modified hairs but they are needle-sharp strong and there are plenty of them what the adults know is that porcupine needles can actually pierce the flesh of life and these
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Adam Spencer: Why I fell...
Euler discovered at the time the world's biggest - 1. It's over two billion. He proved it was prime with nothing more than a quill, ink, paper and his mind. You think that's big.
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Safari Live - Day 142 PIPE...
towards Central I'm afraid her but despite the fact that he has got a beca's porcupine quill in his ear has decided that this direction is not going to work for Tandy
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Twelve Wired Bird of...
quill flick the beak poke
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Crucial Waters PIPE...
tree almost in this emerald green world that you're looking straight up but if you were looking horizontally it's it's there's no ambient light it's pretty dark there's another picture made in fjord land of some animals called sea pens which a reminiscent of the old quill pens but these are like a type of
Video examples
Why do we have hair in...
filaments of the protein keratin that grow out of organs known as follicles, which go through cycles of growth and shedding. Across mammalian species, hairs have been modified for numerous purposes, ranging from the soft fluff covering rabbits to the rigid quills protecting porcupines.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 202 PIPE...
with comfort otherwise you're gonna get hurt so I think that's what you did he just knew he's probably done it before and it worked for him just went in flattened it picked it up and he enjoyed it that very thick fatty layer on the back that holds all the quills that looked very tasty
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 322 PIPE...
quill is the one which used to drill the little holes here on the skin so that they can be able to put some of the traditional ingredients from the plants the powders in order to strengthen some of the people from various tribes so while we are waiting for him to go back
Video examples
Music gives voice to the...
composing music I've always felt that building new audiences requires updating the very idea of the composer from someone older guy with wig and a quill pen who's labouring away in isolation to a cultural ambassador and a collaborator who's deeply integrated in the
Video examples
Porcupine vs. Lions PIPE...
smart to fool around with this small piece those quills may be modified hairs but they are needle-sharp strong and there are plenty of them but the adults know is that porcupine needles can actually pierce the flesh of life and
Video examples
Porcupine vs. Lion PIPE...
quills may be modified hairs but they are needle-sharp strong and there are plenty of them what the adults know is that porcupine needles can actually pierce the flesh of life and these
Video examples
Adam Spencer: Why I fell...
Euler discovered at the time the world's biggest - 1. It's over two billion. He proved it was prime with nothing more than a quill, ink, paper and his mind. You think that's big.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 142 PIPE...
towards Central I'm afraid her but despite the fact that he has got a beca's porcupine quill in his ear has decided that this direction is not going to work for Tandy
Video examples
Twelve Wired Bird of...
quill flick the beak poke
Example 1 of 10
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Twyla Tharp
American Dancer
Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.
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Hilary Mantel
English Writer
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
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Daniel H. Hill
American General
As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.
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Mo Rocca
American Writer
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.
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Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?
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Walter Murch
American Editor
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
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Oscar Nunez
American Actor
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
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Helen Fisher
American Scientist
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
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Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
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Jay Dratler
American Novelist
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
Quote examples
Twyla Tharp
American Dancer
Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.
Quote examples
Hilary Mantel
English Writer
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
Quote examples
Daniel H. Hill
American General
As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.
Quote examples
Mo Rocca
American Writer
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.
Quote examples
Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?
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Walter Murch
American Editor
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
Quote examples
Oscar Nunez
American Actor
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
Quote examples
Helen Fisher
American Scientist
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
Quote examples
Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
Quote examples
Jay Dratler
American Novelist
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
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