Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
- 4noun
The pen of a squid. See Pen.
- 5noun
The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- 6noun
The tube of a musical instrument.
- 7noun
Something having the form of a quill
- 8noun
The fold or plain of a ruff.
- 9noun
A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- 10noun
A hollow spindle.
- 11transitive verb
To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
- 12transitive verb
To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
- 13noun
a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
- 14noun
the hollow spine of a feather
- 15noun
any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
Synonyms
- 16noun
pen made from a bird's feather
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