✒️ A feather pen 🦔 A sharp spine 🪶 A feather shaft 🎨 To shape paper ✒️ To write by hand

to quill

9.0

To write by dipping a bird's feather in ink and using it as a pen

verb
/kwɪl/

Archaic

: escribir a pluma

I quill daily.

Examples

She carefully quilled her signature at the bottom of the letter.
Don't quill too fast!
The poet quilled several verses by candlelight before going to bed.
In the old library, scholars quilled manuscripts for future generations to read.
He carefully quilled the letter by hand, taking his time to ensure each stroke was perfect.
She quilled her thoughts on paper, enjoying the delicate flow of ink from the feather pen.
With a steady hand, he quilled a poem, pouring his emotions into elegant, flowing script.

Synonyms

to pen

vsto quill

Literature

11 6.0

To write something carefully, often a long text

refers to writing by hand using a feather instrument not focused on formality

Compounds

quill pen

Archaic

2 8.1

A writing tool made from a bird's feather that you dip in ink to write

primary quill

Specialized

8.9

A long outer flight feather on a bird's wing that helps it fly

pure quill

9.9

Completely real and honest

quill feather

7.0

A long stiff part of a bird's wing once used for writing

quill-driver

Archaic

9.9

An old-fashioned name for a person who writes for a living, often doing simple forms

How Old-fashioned

to quill

Archaic

9.0

to handwrite

2 3.4

to write

∞ 1.0

to type

367 1.0

Surface Forms

quill infinitive

quilled past

quilled past participle

quilling present participle

quills third person singular

Etymology

Quill as a verb meaning to write with a quill pen comes from using the hollow bird 'feather' as a writing tool that held ink. So to quill something is to produce writing by hand with that feather pen.