quilling
noun · verbB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A band of fluted muslin resembling a row of quills.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A form of art that involves the creation of decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)Quillwork.
- 4.
(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)(US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies) The practice of blowing pepper or snuff through a quill into the nose of a woman who is giving birth, to induce sneezing and diaphragmatic contractions which will induce or hasten labor.
2003, Anita Price Davis, North Carolina During the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of a Decade, page 194, To muster the strength for the final push in childbirth, midwives like Granny Lewis of Burlington, North Carolina, quilled the mother-to-be. With quilling the midwife placed the snuff on one end of the straw and blew it into the nostril of the woman at the right time; the great sneeze that resulted from the woman was accompanied by the birth of the child. Granny Lewis and others used quilling well into the 1930s (Kirby, p192).
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verb- 1.
(form of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of quill
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