quill
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Is quill a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of quill?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) Any pen.Examples: "He picked up his quill and wrote a poem."broadly
2. (zoology) The pen of a squid.
3. (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
4. (music) The tube of a musical instrument.Examples: "He touched the tender stops of various quills."
5. (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.Examples: "The motors are attached to the bogie frames so as to be fully springborne, and drive through quills and flexible couplings to the wheels."
verb (English)
1. (figuratively) To write.Examples: "Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin."; "One has only to recall that Coleridge and Wordsworth one day were lounging by the sea shore, while nearby sat an English police agent on snitch patrol prepared to rush to headquarters to quill a report about the conversation."figuratively
2. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).Examples: "For quotations using this term, see Citations:quill."CanadaUStransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary