Quill - English meaning

noun

Any of the main wing or tail feathers of a bird.

Usage examples:

Outside the banquet hall there was a small oak table, upon which rested a yellowed parchment and a …

noun

The hollow sharp spines of a porcupine, hedgehog, or other spiny mammal.

Usage examples:

These elaborately painted masks represent a pair of horned animals, each with a porcupine quill spr…

noun

Pan pipes.

verb

Another term for penne.

Usage examples:

A dish of pasta quills tossed in a spicy tomato sauce

verb

Form (fabric) into small cylindrical folds.

Usage examples:

Clearly a master of her modest medium, she folds paper into facets, quills it into curlicues and cu…

noun

A long, sharp point on a porcupine, or a large feather with the end cut to a sharp point that was used, esp. in the past, as a pen

noun

Any of the long sharp pointed hairs on the body of a porcupine

noun

A pen made from a bird's feather, used in the past