quill
noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
Đồng nghĩa: calamus
- 2.
A pen made from a feather.
Đồng nghĩa: feather pen, quill pen
- 3.
(broadly)(by extension) Any pen.
He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.
- 4.
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.
- 5.
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- 6.
(zoology) The pen of a squid.
- 7.
(music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- 8.
(music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- 9.
Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- 10.
(mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- 2.
(figuratively)To write.
- 3.
To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
- 4.
To decorate with quillwork.
- 5.
(Canada, US, transitive)(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).
For quotations using this term, see Citations:quill.
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From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings "fragment of reed" and "shaft of a feather", probably from - and quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (to pierce, stick).