quill

Betekenis (English)

1. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
2. A pen made from a feather.
3. Any pen.
4. 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.
5. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
6. The pen of a squid.
7. The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
8. The tube of a musical instrument.
9. 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.
10. A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.

feather

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quill pen

quill drive

quill-pen

rachis

tail feathers

pierce through

pan-pipe

basic shaft

main arbor

lower shaft

liner bushing

telescopic axle

goose feather

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kwɪl/

Inherited from Middle English

Cognate with Middle High German

In summary

From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings "fragment of reed" and "shaft of a feather", probably from Low German and Middle Low German quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”). Compare Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”), which is derived from the Low German term.

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