quill
/kwɪl/ verb C2- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- To write.
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor). · For quotations using this term, see Citations:quill.
He/she/it quills · Past quilled · Past participle quilled · -ing form quilling
Verb forms
- Base form
- quill
- He/she/it
- quills
- Past
- quilled
- Past participle
- quilled
- -ing form
- quilling
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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.
Fat man with a woollen muffler and a quill toothpick.
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.
His face was livid, large drops rolled down his face, and in his fingers he held the fragments of a quill pen which he had torn to atoms.
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