Quill

Definition: Quill

Quill

Noun

1. Pen made from a bird's feather.

2. A stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog.

3. Any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird.

4. The hollow shaft of a feather.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Etymology: Quill \Quill\, noun. [Perhaps from French quille ninepin (see Kayless); but compare to also German kiel a quill. MHG. kil, and Irish cuille a quill.]. (references)

Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Quill

Writing

Writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press; (author).

Stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter.

Noun: writing; Verb: chirography, stelography, cerography; penmanship, craftmanship; quill driving; typewriting.

Crosswords: Quill

Ecuadorian Quechua (bookstore), Manx (fly, gnat).

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Quill Pen Journal (reference)

• Sioux Quill and Beadwork: Designs and Techniques (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) (reference)

• The Quill Reader (reference)

• Ulysses Travel Journal: The Quill (reference)

• Will's Quill (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Quill (reference)

• Quill & Quire (reference)

• Quill & Quire - Microfilm (reference)

• Quill & Scroll (reference)

• Scalpel And Quill (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Phil & Quill with Prestige (reference)

• Pure Quill (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shows poster with artistically rendered profile of armored hand holding a feather quill pen with slogans: "Fight Cancer With Knowledge," "Enlist In The Women's Field Army," "American Society For The Control Of Cancer". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Man in top hat jousting with quill at helmet and letter N. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miltary officer spanking man with quill under letter D. Credit: Library of Congress.

Roger Sherman, half-length portrait, facing right, holding quill pen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Forbes Winslow, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the right, eyes front, seated in chair at table with escritoire, holding quill pen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Str. John Quill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Torch, quill pen, and spade, probably representing the British Labour Party. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "quill": Goose quill ♦ primary quill ♦ quill bit ♦ quill driver ♦ quill driving ♦ quill feather ♦ quill nib ♦ quill pen ♦ spurious quill ♦ tailstock quill. Additional references.

Beginning with "quill": quill-driver, quill-end, quill-feathers, quill-like, quill-pens, quill-written.

Ending with "quill": Crow-quill, goose-quill.

Albanian

rrotëz (caster, Castor, pinion), pupël (down, eider down, feather, feathering, panache, plumage, plume, shuttlecock, vane), pipëz (blowpipe, burner, cannulae, lip, mouthpiece, nozzle, Reed), pendë pate për shkrim, pendë (barrage, dam, dike, embankment, feather, fin, mole, pinion, plumage, plume, seawall, sluice, span, Weir, yoke), kruese dhëmbësh (toothpick), kallam i pendës, gypth, gjemb iriqi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كل أداة تصنع على شكل ريشة, ‏مكوك (bobbin, shuttle), ‏قلم الريشة, ‏طوف صنارة الصيد, ‏ريشة العازف (pick, plectron, plectrum), ‏ريشة (feather, paddle, pencil, pinnule, plume). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оскубвам маховите пера на, плектър (pick, plectrum), паче перо, пробождам с бодил, макара (bobbin, garnet, pulley, reel, spool), махово перо (pen feather, pinion, primary, scapular, scapulary), масур (cop, hasp, reel, spool), надиплям (enfold, fold, kilt, lap, pleat, ruck, ruffle), игла (aiguille, needle, pin, prick, pricker, spine), навивам (coil, curl, expend, fake, furl, lap, roll, roll up, scroll, set, take up, tuck, tuck up, wind, wind up), ствол (bole, shaft, shank, stem, stock, trunk), втулка (bolster, collar, ferrule, insert, insertion, liner, sleeve, spile, tampion, tenon), гофрирам, кух вал, шпулка, цафара, совалка (shuttle, space shuttle), свирка (hooter, pipe, whistle), набирам (compose, dial, gather, maturate, muster, muster up, pucker, raise, set, set up, shirr). (various references)

Chinese 

纤管, 羽莖 , 翮 . (various references)

Czech

péro (plume), osten (prick, prickle, Spike, spine, spur, sting, thorn), brk (pinion). (various references)

Danish

foring (bearing bush, bearing liner, bush, bushing, cover, jacket, liner, outer sleeve, sheat, shell, sleeve, sleeve bearing, spacer). (various references)

Dutch

expansiestuk (bellows, cover, outer sleeve, sheat, spacer), brugstuk (cover, outer sleeve, sheat, spacer), afstandsring (cover, distance washer, outer sleeve, sheat, shim, spacer, spacer ring). (various references)

Farsi 

پرکندن از, پربلندبال پرنده , چین دادن (Corrugate, Shirr, Wrinkle), قلم پر, تیغ جوجه تیغی , ساقه توخالی پر. (various references)

Finnish

sulkakynä, kynä (feather, pen, pencil, plume), hanhenkynä. (various references)

French

tuyau de plume, plume d'oie, piquant, penne, ligne � pêcher, hampe creuse, fourreau (tailstock quill), bobine. (various references)

German

Federkiel (scape), Feder (feather, nib, pen, plume, plumes, quills, spring). (various references)

Greek 

κάλυμμα (cap, cover, covering, cowling, integument, lid, shroud, wrap, wrapper, wrapping), γραφή (hand, script, scripture, style, write, writing), πέννα (fountain pen, pen, pence, penny, plectrum), πένα από φτερό, πτερό (aigrette, pinion, plume). (various references)

Hebrew 

קולמוס (pen, reed pen), � וצ�" (feather, pinion, plume). (various references)

Hungarian

vetülékcséve, tollszár (body, penholder), penna, lúdtoll (quill-pen), cséve (cop, reel, spool). (various references)

Indonesian

pelampung (buoy), lipatan (crease, flounce, fold, pleat), corong (funnel, microphone, mine shaft, shaft), bulu ayam. (various references)

Italian

penna d'oca. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

筆�'揮う (to drive a quill, to wield the writing brush). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふで�'ふるう (to drive a quill, to wield the writing brush). (various references)

Korean 

퀼. (various references)

Manx

cuill (bobbin, weaver's quill). (various references)

Pig Latin

illquay.(various references)

Portuguese

pena grande de ave, guarnecer de folhos, franzir (corrugate, full, furrow, kilt, plait, pucker, ruck, ruckle, shirr, wrinkle), estojo (box, boxing, case, casket, holder, kit, pyxis, set, socket), enrolar em bobina, eixo oco, dobrar (bend, bow, curve, double, flex, fold, furl, hinge), cálamo de pena de ave (scape), bobina de lançadeira, bainha (case, edging, fell, hem, holder, husk, lap, pod, scabbard, seam, socket, underdress). (various references)

Romanian

scobitoare (toothpick, tooth-pick), plutã (Cork, float, raft), panã (arrow, break down, chock, cleat, cotter, failure, feather, Gib, injury, jaw, peg, pen, pick, pinion, plug, plume, puncture, quill pen, Spike, wedge), flotor (float, floater, swimmer), condei (pen, stalk), cometã (comet), ţeavã de panã, ţeapã (bristle, goad, pale, sliver, spine, splinter, thorn). (various references)

Russian 

стержень поплавка, ткацкий челнок, шпулька (pirn, reel, spool), шпуля (bobbin, spool), втулка (boss, bung, bushing, collar, hob, nave, pad, peg, sleeve, socket, spigot, spile, tampion, vent-peg), наматывать (reel, reel up, reeling, wind, wind up), зубочистка (floss, toothpick), птичье перо (feather), перо (feather, nib, pen, plume, styli, stylus), игла дикобраза (porcupine quills), игла (aiguille, needle, spine). (various references)

Scottish

ite (a feather, feather, fin of a fish, pen, plume). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svirala, praviti nešto u obliku cevi, pero (feather, pen, plume, style), namotavati (wind up), motati (roll up, wind up), bodlja (barb, pricker, spine, thorn). (various references)

Spanish

vaina (husk, pod, scabbard, seedcase, sheath, shell, shuck, take), separador (abducens, abducent, separator), pluma (feather, hackle, pen, penmanship, plume, writing), púa (barb, jag, plectrum, prickle, scion, spike, spine, tine, tooth), mondadientes (toothpick), encanillar (wind), encañonar, canilla (bobbin, faucet, spool, tap), cañón (Barker, barrel, cannon, canyon, gorge, gun, pinfeather, pipe, scape, shaft, stem, tube), cálamo (sweet calamus, sweet flag, sweet root, sweet sedge). (various references)

Swedish

gåspenna. (various references)

Turkish

tarçın kabuğu, tüy kalem (goose-quill, quill pen), tüy (down, feather, fluff, hair, nap, pile, plume, villus), sert kuştüyü, makaraya sarmak (reel, reel up, spool, wind on a reel), makara (block, bobbin, hasp, pulley, reel, roller, sheave, spool, truckle, whip), mızrap (plectrum), kamış flüt, fitilli dikmek, diken (barb, briar, brier, prick, pricker, prickle, spicule, spine, thorn, thornbush, thorny plant, trichome), bobin (bobbin, coil, reel, roller, sheave, spiral, spool, winding). (various references)

Ukrainian

шити в складку, гофрувати (corrugate, frill, gauffer, goffer, ruffle), голка дикобраза, намотувати на котушку (reel), зубочистка (picktooth, toothpick), перо (feather, pen, plume). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tăm bằng ống lông, cái gảy đ� n bằng ống lông ông chỉ. (various references)

coles, multicoloria. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quill": quillai, quillaia, quillaias, quillais, quillaja, quillajas, quillback, quillbacks, quilled, quillet, quillets, quilling, quillings, quills, quillwork, quillworks. (additional references)

Words ending with "quill": squill. (additional references)

Words containing "quill": coquille, coquilles, maquillage, maquillages, squilla, squillae, squillas, squills, tranquiller, tranquillest, tranquillities, tranquillity, tranquillize, tranquillized, tranquillizer, tranquillizers, tranquillizes, tranquillizing, tranquilly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aquil, euyll, qail, qali, Qila, qill, qoil, quaille, qual, qualf, qualg, qualk, Qualo, qualp, Quarll, quawl, queal, Queel, quegl, quel, quelk, quella, quello, quelp, queol, quial, quiel, quiell, quil, Quila, quilb, quilble, quild, quile, quilf, quilk, quilla, quille, quillo, quilm, quiln, quilp, quiol, quiwl, qulid, qulil, qulis, qull, qumill, quol, quole, quril, qwill, squil, uil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ill.

-3 letters: li.

+1 letter: quills, squill.

+2 letters: quillai, quilled, quillet, squilla, squills.

+3 letters: coquille, illiquid, liquidly, quelling, quillaia, quillais, quillaja, quillets, quilling, quinella, squillae, squillas.

+4 letters: colloquia, coquilles, equalling, obliquely, ololiuqui, quadrille, quillaias, quillajas, quillback, quillings, quillwork, quinellas, soliloquy, squalidly, squallier, squalling.

+5 letters: cliquishly, colloquial, colloquies, colloquist, colloquium, maquillage, ololiuquis, quadrilles, qualmishly, quesadilla, quillbacks, quillworks, rainsquall, squalliest, squirrelly, tranquilly.