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1. Pen made from a bird's feather
   - quill pen
    
2. A stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
    
3. Any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
   - flight feather, pinion, quill feather
    
4. The hollow spine of a feather
   - calamus, shaft

Derived forms: quills

Type of: pen, plume, rib, spine

Part of: Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus, hedgehog, plume, porcupine, porky [N. Amer, informal], wing

Encyclopedia: Quill, John