quill

/kwɪl/

The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.

A pen made from a feather.

Any pen.

He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.

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.

A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.

The pen of a squid.

The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

The tube of a musical instrument.

Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

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