quill
kwil
- n pen made from a bird's feather
- n a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
- n any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- n the hollow spine of a feather
- Scientist Joseph Priestly, in 1780, designed and ordered made a steel pen that resembled a quill, just as anciently the quill imitated the reed.
- So as a no longer hip person and and putting all my chips on the table here an ex-Wall Street Journal reporter, I am plucking my quill, or dipping it, or whatever we did to .
- A broad goose quill is the favorite writing implement of Paul von Hindenburg, President of the German Republic.