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Definition of quill noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

quill

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