Quill

noun

1.: (one of the large feathers on a bird's wing or tail pen made of a feather; one of the stiff barbed, spine like hairs of a porcupine) goods quill ស្លាប, writing quill ដងប៉ាកាធ្វើពីស្លាបសត្វ, porcupine quill កាំ (នៃសត្វកាំប្រម៉ា)

ENGLISH MEANING

noun

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.
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.
3.: A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
4.: The pen of a squid.
5.: The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
6.: The tube of a musical instrument.
7.: Something having the form of a quill
8.: The fold or plain of a ruff.
9.: A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
10.: A hollow spindle.
11.: A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona.

verb

1.: (TRANSITIVE) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
2.: (TRANSITIVE) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.