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   quill

   /kwɪl/

   noun

   • 1. any of the main wing or tail feathers of a bird.
   • ▪ the hollow shaft of a feather, especially the lower part or calamus that lacks barbs.
   • ▪ a pen made from a main wing or tail feather of a large bird by pointing and slitting the end of the shaft: "he leant over his writing desk, quill in hand"
   • 2. the hollow sharp spines of a porcupine, hedgehog, or other spiny mammal.
   • 3. another term for penne
   • 4. pan pipes. informal, dated US

   verb

   • 1. form (fabric) into small cylindrical folds.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the senses ‘hollow stem’ and ‘shaft of a feather’): probably from Middle Low German quiele.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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