quill
quills
A quill is a feather, or the narrow tube of a feather's shaft — long ago used as a writing instrument. John Hancock didn't use a ballpoint to sign the Declaration of Independence, silly. He used a quill!
The quills of a bird's feathers seem ideally designed for dipping in ink and writing on paper — they're so perfect that this type of old-fashioned pen is also called a quill. In addition to birds, there are some mammals with quills, including porcupines and hedgehogs. We know that quill comes from the Low German quiele , but beyond that its origin is a mystery.
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the hollow spine of a feather
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a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
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type of:
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spine
a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
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spine
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pen made from a bird's feather
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any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
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synonyms:
flight feather, pinion, quill feather
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types:
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primary, primary feather, primary quill
one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
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tail feather
feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird
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sickle feather
one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster
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primary, primary feather, primary quill
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