quill
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sulkakynä
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quill englanniksi
The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
(syn)
A pen made from a feather.
(RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)
Any pen.
(ux)
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. (defdate)
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
The tube of a instrument.
(RQ:Milton Poems)
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.
(quote-text)
To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as ''be quilled'' or ''get quilled''.)
{{quote-book|en|year=1966|author=David Francis Costello|title=The World of the Porcupine|publisher=J. B. Lippincott & Company|page=66
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Mark Parman|title=A Grouse Hunter's Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-24920-5|pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=ql__l7N9l0wC&lpg=PA49&dq=quilled&pg=PA49v=onepage&q=quilled&f=false|page=49
To write.
(RQ:Joyce Finnegans Wake)
{{quote-book|en|year=1976|author=Ed Sanders|title=Investigative Poetry|publisher=City Lights|year_published=1976|page=11
To decorate with quillwork.
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=David J. Wishart|title=Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians|pageurl=http://books.google.ca/books?id=646oX4hA8EkC&lpg=PA32&dq=%22quilled%22&pg=PA32v=onepage&q=%22quilled%22&f=false|page=32|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year_published=2007|isbn=0-8032-9862-5
To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
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