quill

quill:

see pen.

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What does it mean when you dream about a quill?

As a writing instrument often associated with refinement and gentility, the quill can symbolize superior social status or prestige, sophistication or style, false delicacy or affectation, and belles lettres, among others. In a dream it may provide inspiration to write about thoughts and dreams.

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quill

[kwil]

(design engineering)

A hollow shaft into which another shaft is inserted in mechanical devices.

(textiles)

A shaft or spool on which filling yarn is wound before insertion into a shuttle.

(vertebrate zoology)

The hollow, horny shaft of a large stiff wing or tail feather.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

quill

1. 

a. any of the large stiff feathers of the wing or tail of a bird

b. the long hollow central part of a bird's feather; calamus

2. any of the stiff hollow spines of a porcupine or hedgehog

3. a device, formerly usually made from a crow quill, for plucking a harpsichord string

4. Angling a length of feather barb stripped of barbules and used for the body of some artificial flies

5. a small roll of bark, esp one of dried cinnamon

6. (in weaving) a bobbin or spindle

7. Engineering a hollow shaft that rotates upon an inner spindle or concentrically about an internal shaft
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