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Quill
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A hollow spindle.
(2):
(n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
(3):
(n.) A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona.
(4):
(v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
(5):
(n.) The fold or plain of a ruff.
(6):
(v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
(7):
(n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
(8):
(n.) The tube of a musical instrument.
(9):
(n.) Something having the form of a quill
(10):
(n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.
(11):
(n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
(12):
(n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
(13):
(n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Quill'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/q/quill.html. 1828.
