Meaning of QUILL in English

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.

Use in sentences of QUILL

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.
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.
A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
The pen of a squid. See Pen.
The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
The tube of a musical instrument.
Something having the form of a quill
The fold or plain of a ruff.
A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
A hollow spindle.
To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.