quill

quill is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
2. noun. A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.
3. noun. A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
4. noun. The pen of a squid. See Pen.
5. noun. The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
6. noun. The tube of a musical instrument.
7. noun. Something having the form of a quill
8. noun. The fold or plain of a ruff.
9. noun. A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
10. noun. A hollow spindle.
11. transitive verb. To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
12. transitive verb. To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
13. noun. a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
14. noun. the hollow spine of a feather

    Synonyms: calamus, shaft

15. noun. any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird

    Synonyms: pinion

16. noun. pen made from a bird's feather

Synonyms

calamus, shaft, pinion

Common word forms

quills, quilled, quiller, quilling, quillity

Words from these letters

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