quill

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quill

  1. oka, piikki, sulka, ruoto, suoni, ruoti.

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piikki

sulkakynä

sulka The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
A pen made from a feather.
puhekieltä Any pen.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.

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.
A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
The pen of a squid.
puhekieltä The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
puhekieltä The tube of a musical instrument.
Milton
He touched the tender stops of various quills.
Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or puhekieltä a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
To pierce or be pierced with quills.
1966, David Francis Costello, The World of the Porcupine, J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 66:
Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled.
2010, Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunters Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting'', University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-24920-5, http://books.google.ca/books?id=ql__l7N9l0wC&lpg=PA49&dq=quilled&pg=PA49v=onepage&q=quilled&f=false page 49:
Then one of my dogs got quilled, and it happened again a month later. After putting the dog in a headlock, yanking out several dozen quills, and spurting blood all over myself and the decking of the back porch, I at least understood his antiporcupine venom.
puhekieltä To write.
1939, w:James Joyce|James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, page 182:
Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin.
1976, w:Ed Sanders|Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry, City Lights (1976), page 11:
One has only to recall that Coleridge and Wordsworth one day were lounging by the sea shore, while nearby sat an English police agent on snitch patrol prepared to rush to headquarters to quill a report about the conversation.
To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
To decorate with quillwork.
2007, David J. Wishart, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians, University of Nebraska Press (2007), ISBN 0-8032-9862-5, http://books.google.ca/books?id=646oX4hA8EkC&lpg=PA32&dq=%22quilled%22&pg=PA32v=onepage&q=%22quilled%22&f=false page 32:
Another characteristic of Plains Indians was the fairly strict division between art made and used by men and art made and used by women. Although men and women sometimes cooperated, women usually painted or quilled very balanced, controlled geometric designs on dresses, moccasins, robes, bags, and containers.
puhekieltä To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
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(de-verb form of)
gnat

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