quill

Senso (Inglese)

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

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Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kwɪl/

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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