Synonyms of the word quill


QUILLCALAMUS - FEATHER - PEN - PINION - PLUMAGE - PLUME - RIB - SHAFT - SPINE

quill

  • n. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
  • n. A pen made from a feather.
  • n. (figuratively) Any pen.
  • n. A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine…
  • n. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
  • n. The pen of a squid.
  • n. (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
  • n. (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
  • n. Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or…
  • v. To pierce or be pierced with quills.
  • v. (figuratively) To write.
  • v. To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
  • v. To decorate with quillwork.
  • v. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving…

calamus

  • n. The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
  • n. A quill.

feather

  • n. A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection…
  • n. Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed…
  • n. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
  • n. A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object…
  • n. Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
  • n. One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers;…
  • n. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves…
  • v. To cover or furnish with feathers.
  • v. To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
  • v. (aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the…
  • v. (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
  • v. (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring…
  • v. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
  • v. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
  • v. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  • v. To tread, as a cock.
  • v. (snooker) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.

pen

  • n. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
  • n. A place to confine a person; a prison cell, though likelier an abbreviation of penitentiary.
  • n. (baseball) The bullpen.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
  • n. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used…
  • n. (figuratively) A writer, or his style.
  • n. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
  • n. A light pen.
  • n. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
  • n. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
  • n. (poetic) A wing.
  • v. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
  • n. A female swan.
  • n. penalty.

pinion

  • n. A wing.
  • n. (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
  • n. (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
  • n. A moth of the genus Lithophane.
  • n. (obsolete) A fetter for the arm.
  • v. (with the bird or the wing as the object) To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable…
  • v. (with the person or the arms as the object) To bind the arms of any one, so as to deprive him of their…
  • n. The smallest gear in a gear drive train.

plumage

  • n. Feathers, either covering a bird or used ornamentally.
  • n. Finery or elaborate dress.

plume

  • n. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
  • n. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
  • n. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
  • n. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
  • n. An area over which (or aspace into which) a dispersed substance has spread or fanned out; a cloud.
  • n. An upward spray of water or mist.
  • n. (geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
  • n. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
  • n. A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental…
  • v. (transitive) To preen and arrange the feathers of.
  • v. (transitive) To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
  • v. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
  • v. To adorn with feathers or plumes.
  • v. To form a plume.
  • v. To write; to pen.

rib

  • n. Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from…
  • n. A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
  • n. A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
  • n. (nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to…
  • n. Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
  • n. (architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially…
  • n. (knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
  • n. (botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
  • n. A teasing joke.
  • n. (Ireland, colloquial) A single strand of hair.
  • n. A stalk of celery.
  • n. (archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.
  • v. To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
  • v. To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
  • v. To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
  • v. (transitive) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

shaft

  • n. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
  • n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
  • n. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
  • n. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed…
  • n. A beam or ray of light.
  • n. The main axis of a feather.
  • n. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
  • n. A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
  • n. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
  • n. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
  • n. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
  • n. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
  • n. The chamber of a blast furnace.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
  • v. (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

spine

  • n. The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to…
  • n. Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures…
  • n. A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
  • n. (figuratively) Courage or assertiveness.
  • n. The stiffness of an arrow.

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