quill : Idioms & Phrases

Crow"-quill` noun

Definitions

1. A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.

Webster 1913

• a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it.

Webster 1913

• noun one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
  primary feather; primary; primary quill.
  

WordNet

• noun one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
  primary feather; primary; primary quill.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), the largest feathers of the wing of a bird; primaries.

Webster 1913

• a bit for boring resembling the half of a reed split lengthways and having its end sharpened like a gouge.

Webster 1913

• one who works with a pen; a writer; a clerk. Jocose

Webster 1913

• noun any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
  flight feather; quill; pinion.
  

WordNet

• a small quill pen made to be used with a holder.

Webster 1913

• noun pen made from a bird's feather
  quill.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), the quill feathers arising from the forearm of a bird and forming a row continuous with the primaries; called also secondaries. See Illust. of Bird.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds.

Webster 1913