Crossword-Solution: QUILL 5 letters, 61 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Quill n. 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.
Quill n. 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.
Quill n. A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
Quill n. The pen of a squid. See Pen.
Quill n. The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of
certain instruments.
Quill n. The tube of a musical instrument.
Quill n. Something having the form of a quill
Quill n. The fold or plain of a ruff.
Quill n. A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the
thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
Quill n. A hollow spindle.
Quill v. t. To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings;
as, to quill a ruffle.
Quill v. t. To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.

We have 61 clues for the answer “QUILL”

Clue Answers
Porcupine spine 1 answer
Feather for writers 1 answer
Feather pen 1 answer
Feather used as a pen 1 answer
Feathery pen 1 answer
Fountain pen precursor 1 answer
Goose feather. 1 answer
Hedgehog's spine 1 answer
Inkwell item 1 answer
John Hancock implement 1 answer
Old pen 1 answer
Old-time pen. 1 answer
Part of an oldtime desk set. 1 answer
Pen made from a feather 1 answer
Porcupine feature 1 answer
Porcupine poker 1 answer
Erstwhile writing implement 1 answer
Porcupine's spine 1 answer
President of T. W. U. 1 answer
Quaint pen 1 answer
Quaint writer 1 answer
Stiff feather pen 1 answer
Sword's old superior 1 answer
Tail feather of a bird 1 answer
Tail feather. 1 answer
Tool for telling? 1 answer
With Lake, Saskatchewan community 1 answer
Writing tool on a $2 bill 1 answer
ballpoint ancestor 1 answer
pen made from the feather of a bird's wing or tail 1 answer
the hollow spine of a feather 1 answer
Early pen 1 answer
Bird's large feather 1 answer
Ballpoint's ancestor 1 answer
Ball point's ancestor 1 answer
A C. I. O. vice president, vocal in bus strikes. 1 answer
Old-fashioned pen 2 answers
Hollow reed 2 answers
remex 2 answers
Calligrapher's purchase 3 answers
calamus 3 answers
Calligraphy tool 3 answers
wing feather 4 answers
Wing feature 4 answers
Hollow stem 4 answers
Declaration of Independence signer 4 answers
FEATHER, part of 9 answers
*Kind of pen 9 answers
A STIFF HOLLOW PROTECTIVE SPINE ON A PORCUPINE OR HEDGEHOG 10 answers
BARB PORCUPINE 10 answers
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Sentences with QUILL (5)

For use, fill your small bottle, having a quill in the cork, with alcohol, and add a few drops of the above, or enough to change it to a bright orange or saffron color.
American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994
Put the same feather with an ink-bottle, a book and a stack of writing-paper, and most men will swear they’ve seen a quill pen.
The Wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995
Across this archway hung a pair of dark-green curtains, making a mystery of all within the arch except the spasmodic scratching of a quill pen.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Father said she was gradually coming down the scale of her feelings, and before two weeks she'd give Isaac Thomas, at least, a quill for a pen.
Laddie Gene Stratton-Porter 2008
The tiny bits of paper on which we have written (post-card fashion) message and address are rolled two or three together, and inserted into a piece of quill less than two inches long, which, however, they do not entirely fill.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008

Quotes with QUILL (3)

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole c…
Herman Melville Moby-Dick or, The Whale
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.
Ellen DeGeneres The Funny Thing Is...
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
Virginia Woolf Orlando
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 36 times in crossword archives (1942–2023).