To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.
To assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards.
The pincushionplant, a flowering plant in the genus Navarretia.
A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.
A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.
The dustymaiden, a flowering plant in the genus Chaenactis.
A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.
The coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant.
A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.
The pincushion cactus, of the genera Escobaria or Mammillaria.
To pierce or be pierced with quills.
To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
To decorate with quillwork.
To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
To write.
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.
The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
The tube of a musical instrument.
A pen made from a feather.
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.
The pen of a squid.
Any pen.