Usually means: Feather used as writing instrument.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. quill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quill: Merriam-Webster
  3. quill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quill: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quill: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quill, quill: Wordnik
  8. quill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Quill, quill: Wiktionary
  10. quill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quill: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. quill: Dictionary.com
  14. quill: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Quill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. quill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. quill: Rhymezone
  20. Quill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. quill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. quill: FreeDictionary.org
  23. quill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. quill: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quill: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quill: Legal dictionary
  2. quill: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. quill: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quill, quill, quill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Quill: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Quill: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quill: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quill: Pottery Studio

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
noun:  A pen made from a feather.
noun:  (by extension) Any pen.
noun:  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.
noun:  A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
noun:  The pen of a squid.
noun:  (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
noun:  (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
noun:  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.
noun:  (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
verb:  To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
verb:  (figuratively) To write.
verb:  To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
verb:  To decorate with quillwork.
verb:  (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
noun:  A surname from Irish.

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