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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: quill (0.02112 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to quill.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: quill
bulu ayam
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: quill
bulu ayam, corong, lipatan, pelampung
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: quill
quill
n 1: pen made from a bird's feather [syn:
quill pen]
2: a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
3: any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird [syn:
flight feather
,
pinion,
quill feather]
4: the hollow shaft of a feather [syn:
calamus,
shaft]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Quill
Quill
\Quill\, n. [Perhaps fr. F. quille ninepin (see
Kayless); but cf. also G. kiel a quill. MHG. kil, and Ir.
cuille a quill.]
1. One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the
rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
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2. A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the
point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the
proper subject of his quill. --Sir H. Wotton.
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3. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
(b) The pen of a squid. See
Pen.
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4. (Mus.)
(a) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings
of certain instruments.
(b) The tube of a musical instrument.
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He touched the tender stops of various quills.
--Milton.
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5. Something having the form of a quill; as:
(a) The fold or plain of a ruff.
(b) (Weaving) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood,
upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a
shuttle.
(c) (Mach.) A hollow spindle.
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6. (Pharm.) A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or
of cinchona.
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Quill bit, a bit for boring resembling the half of a reed
split lengthways and having its end sharpened like a
gouge.
Quill driver, one who works with a pen; a writer; a clerk.
[Jocose]
Quill nib, a small quill pen made to be used with a holder.
--Simmonds.
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Quill
\Quill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Quilled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quilling.]
1. To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings;
as, to quill a ruffle.
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His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff. --Goldsmith.
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2. To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn. --Judd.
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