The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
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 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.
To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
To pierce or be pierced with quills.
To decorate with quillwork.
To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
To write.
The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
A sight on a sextant or compass.
One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
A weather vane.