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quill

/kwɪl/ 名词 C1

中文: 鹅毛笔、羽毛笔、刺

  1. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
  2. A pen made from a feather.
  3. Any pen. · He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.
  4. 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.
  5. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
  6. The pen of a squid.
  7. The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
  8. The tube of a musical instrument.

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Fat man with a woollen muffler and a quill toothpick.
《Six stories from The Four Million》,第5页 · C1
“I heard some news from Ikki (his quills make him presumptuous) of a man-thing that was entered into a wolf pack, but I did not believe.
《The Jungle Book》,第44页 · B2
I rejoice, however, to perceive that he wrote with a broad-pointed quill pen, and I can hardly doubt that we will find some impression upon this blotting-pad.
《The Return of Sherlock Holmes》,第105页 · C1
However, in the morning I determined to have a look at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Pope’s Court.
《The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes》,第13页 · B2

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