quill
noun/kwɪl/
/kwɪl/
- (also quill feather)a large feather from the wing or tail of a bird
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- (also quill pen)a pen made from a quill feather
- one of the long sharp stiff spines on a porcupine
Word Originlate Middle English (in the senses ‘hollow stem’ and ‘shaft of a feather’): probably from Middle Low German quiele.
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