Quill

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
2. isim A pen made from a feather.

   “The note was written in a delicate hand with a crow-quill, on primrose-coloured paper, with a lilac seal—the motto "tout à vous;" and the whole with just a faint perfume of jasmine.”

3. isim Any pen.

   “He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.”

4. isim 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.

   “I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]”

5. isim A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
6. isim The pen of a squid.
7. isim The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
8. isim The tube of a musical instrument.

   “He touched the tender stops of various quills.”

9. isim Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

   “His hair still stood up in punk-rock quills and spikes.”

10. isim A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.

    “The motors are attached to the bogie frames so as to be fully springborne, and drive through quills and flexible couplings to the wheels.”

11. fiil To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)

    “Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled.”

12. fiil To write.

    “Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin.”

13. fiil To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
14. fiil To decorate with quillwork.
15. fiil 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.”

16. özel isim A surname from Irish.