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1.nounThe lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
2.nounA pen made from a feather.
3.nounAny pen."He picked up his quill and wrote a poem."
4.nounA 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.nounA thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
6.nounThe pen of a squid.
7.nounThe plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
8.nounThe tube of a musical instrument.
9.nounSomething having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.