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The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
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A pen made from a feather.
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Any pen.
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He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.
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A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
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A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
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The pen of a squid.
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The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
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The tube of a musical instrument.
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Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.