Quill

What “Quill” means

Noun

1. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
2. A pen made from a feather.
3. Any pen.
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.

Verb

1. To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
2. To write.
3. To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
4. To decorate with quillwork.
5. To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).

Where the word comes from

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 Low German and Middle Low German quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”). Compare Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”), which is derived from the Low German term.

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• Copywriting Business
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