"quill" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kwɪl/, [kʰw̥ɪl] Audio: en-us-quill.ogg Forms: quills [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪl Etymology: From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings "fragment of reed" and "shaft of a feather", probably from Low German and Middle Low German quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”). Compare Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”), which is derived from the Low German term. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|quyl}} Middle English quyl, {{der|en|nds|-}} Low German, {{der|en|gml|quiele}} Middle Low German quiele, {{der|en|ine-pro|*gʷelH-|t=to pierce, stick}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”), {{cog|gmh|kil||large feather, quill}} Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} quill (plural quills)
  1. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs. Categories (topical): Writing instruments Synonyms: calamus Translations (lower shaft of a feather): therrë [feminine] (Albanian), canó [masculine] (Catalan), brk [masculine] (Czech), толга (tolga) (Erzya), plumo (Esperanto), kalamo (Esperanto), kynä (Finnish), plume [feminine] (French), cálamo [masculine] (Galician), ღეპეპი (ɣeṗeṗi) (Georgian), ფრთის ღერო (prtis ɣero) (Georgian), Kiel [masculine] (German), fjaðurstafur [masculine] (Icelandic), plumo (Ido), calamo [masculine] (Italian), tuaka (Maori), (Maori), atʼákaz (Navajo), Poos [feminine] (Plautdietsch), ство́л пера́ (stvól perá) [masculine] (Russian), kalem (Serbo-Croatian), batrljica (Serbo-Croatian), калем [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), батрљица [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), cálamo [feminine] (Spanish), ปากกาขนนก (Thai), koob (White Hmong), gǃqhàẽ (ǃXóõ)
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  2. A pen made from a feather. Synonyms: feather pen, quill pen
    Sense id: en-quill-en-noun-T7WrYqcS
  3. (by extension) Any pen. Tags: broadly Translations (any pen): plumo (Esperanto), inkoskribilo (Esperanto), kynä (Finnish), Stift [masculine] (German), plajbász (Hungarian), plumo (Ido), penna [feminine] (Italian), pluma [feminine] (Spanish), bläckpenna [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-quill-en-noun-bhvDDYiw Disambiguation of 'any pen': 5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2
  4. 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. Translations (needle-like structure that grows on the skin): إِبْرَة (ʔibra) [feminine] (Arabic), شَوْكَة (šawka) [feminine] (Arabic), калю́чка (kaljúčka) [feminine] (Belarusian), бодил (bodil) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ဖြူဆူး (hpruhcu:) (Burmese), pua [masculine] (Catalan), (cì) (Chinese Mandarin), piikki (Finnish), piquant [masculine] (French), épine [feminine] (French), Stachel [masculine] (German), αγκάθι (agkáthi) [neuter] (Greek), broddur [masculine] (Icelandic), aculeo [masculine] (Italian), (toge) (alt: とげ) (Japanese), 가시 (gasi) (Korean), боцка (bocka) [feminine] (Macedonian), اوق (ok) (Ottoman Turkish), ਤੱਕਲ਼ਾ (takkaḷā) [masculine] (Punjabi), иго́лка (igólka) [feminine] (Russian), игла́ (iglá) [feminine] (Russian), bodlja (Serbo-Croatian), bodljika (Serbo-Croatian), бодља [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), бодљика [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), púa [feminine] (Spanish), pigg [common-gender] (Swedish), diken (Turkish), ok (Turkish), го́лка (hólka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-quill-en-noun-XIxohMcG Disambiguation of 'needle-like structure that grows on the skin': 15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3
  5. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube. Translations (thin piece of bark, curled into a roll): kanelitanko (english: cinnamon quill) (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-quill-en-noun-7x73kCQ9 Disambiguation of 'thin piece of bark, curled into a roll': 2 2 0 3 84 1 1 2 2 3
  6. The pen of a squid. Translations (pen of a squid): selkäkilpi (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-quill-en-noun-1-sHUxSM Disambiguation of 'pen of a squid': 2 3 4 2 1 83 1 1 1 1
  7. (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments. Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-quill-en-noun-Mq5ptcjt Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  8. (music) The tube of a musical instrument. Categories (topical): Music Translations (music: tube of a musical instrument): putki (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-quill-en-noun-AtPgeOX4 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'music: tube of a musical instrument': 4 1 0 2 4 1 7 72 5 3
  9. Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle. Categories (topical): Weaving Translations (something having the form of a quill): piikki (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-quill-en-noun-4aWIZXS4 Disambiguation of 'something having the form of a quill': 2 2 0 3 3 2 2 2 66 18
  10. (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it. Categories (topical): Mechanical engineering
    Sense id: en-quill-en-noun-lSRtGcSN Topics: engineering, mechanical, mechanical-engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (pen made of feather): therrë [feminine] (Albanian), pero (Azerbaijani), пяро́ (pjaró) [neuter] (Belarusian), перо́ (peró) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 鵝毛筆 (Chinese Mandarin), 鹅毛笔 (émáobǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 羽毛筆 (Chinese Mandarin), 羽毛笔 (yǔmáobǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), pero [neuter] (Czech), fjerpen [common-gender] (Danish), anserplumo (Esperanto), fjøður [feminine] (Faroese), fjøðurpennur [masculine] (Faroese), fjaðurpennur [masculine] (Faroese), sulkakynä (Finnish), plume [feminine] (French), pluma (Galician), péndola [feminine] (Galician), ბატის ფრთა (baṭis prta) (Georgian), Schreibfeder [feminine] (German), Federkiel [masculine] (German), Feder [feminine] (German), πέννα (pénna) [feminine] (Greek), קולמוס (Hebrew), penna (Hungarian), fjaðurpenni [masculine] (Icelandic), plumo (Ido), pero (Ingrian), calamo [masculine] (Italian), penna d'oca [feminine] (Italian), 羽根ペン (hane-pen) (Japanese), 羽ペン (hane-pen) (Japanese), өдн (ödn) (Kalmyk), calamus (Latin), перо (pero) [neuter] (Macedonian), fjærpenn [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), pióro [neuter] (Polish), gęsie pióro [neuter] (Polish), pena [feminine] (Portuguese), перо́ (peró) [neuter] (Russian), гуси́ное перо́ (gusínoje peró) [neuter] (Russian), перо [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), pero [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), pero [neuter] (Slovak), pero [neuter] (Slovene), pluma [feminine] (Spanish), gåspenna [common-gender] (Swedish), fjäderpenna [common-gender] (Swedish), vingpenna [common-gender] (Swedish), ปากกา (bpàak-gaa) (Thai), перо́ (peró) [neuter] (Ukrainian), penamaleplüm (Volapük)
Derived forms: Big Quill, piss in a quill, pure quill, quill bit, quill-driver, quill feather, quillless, quilllike, quill mite, quill pen, quill pig, quillwort Disambiguation of 'pen made of feather': 24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4

Verb

IPA: /kwɪl/, [kʰw̥ɪl] Audio: en-us-quill.ogg Forms: quills [present, singular, third-person], quilling [participle, present], quilled [participle, past], quilled [past]
Rhymes: -ɪl Etymology: From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings "fragment of reed" and "shaft of a feather", probably from Low German and Middle Low German quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”). Compare Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”), which is derived from the Low German term. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|quyl}} Middle English quyl, {{der|en|nds|-}} Low German, {{der|en|gml|quiele}} Middle Low German quiele, {{der|en|ine-pro|*gʷelH-|t=to pierce, stick}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”), {{cog|gmh|kil||large feather, quill}} Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} quill (third-person singular simple present quills, present participle quilling, simple past and past participle quilled)
  1. To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
    Sense id: en-quill-en-verb-o6AWdaPt
  2. (figuratively) To write. Tags: figuratively Translations (to write): пиша (piša) (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-quill-en-verb-t4IrEPwS Disambiguation of 'to write': 0 100 0 0 0
  3. To form fabric into small, rounded folds. Translations (to form fabric into folds): надиплям (nadipljam) (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-quill-en-verb-dwpE9ZDk Disambiguation of 'to form fabric into folds': 2 0 84 1 14
  4. To decorate with quillwork.
    Sense id: en-quill-en-verb-3k~HN6FS
  5. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor). Tags: Canada, US, transitive
    Sense id: en-quill-en-verb-NjLJf3Hy Categories (other): American English, Appalachian English, Canadian English

Inflected forms

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        {
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          "_dis": "31 6 4 10 9 1 5 2 3 3 6 0 1 7 11",
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          "_dis": "30 4 5 5 6 4 9 12 5 3 4 1 4 4 5",
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          "barb"
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          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "sq",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "canó"
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        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "brk"
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        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "myv",
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          "word": "толга"
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        {
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          "code": "eo",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "plumo"
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        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "eo",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "kalamo"
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        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "kynä"
        },
        {
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "plume"
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        {
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cálamo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ɣeṗeṗi",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "ღეპეპი"
        },
        {
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "prtis ɣero",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "ფრთის ღერო"
        },
        {
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Kiel"
        },
        {
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "io",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "plumo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "calamo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "tuaka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "mi",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "tā"
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        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "nv",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "atʼákaz"
        },
        {
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          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "Poos"
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        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cálamo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "ปากกาขนนก"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "mww",
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          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "koob"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "53 9 3 9 8 1 4 2 2 9",
          "code": "nmn",
          "lang": "ǃXóõ",
          "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
          "word": "gǃqhàẽ"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 77:",
          "text": "The note was written in a delicate hand with a crow-quill, on primrose-coloured paper, with a lilac seal—the motto \"tout à vous;\" and the whole with just a faint perfume of jasmine.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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          "pen"
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        }
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        {
          "text": "He picked up his quill and wrote a poem.",
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          "pen"
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        "(by extension) Any pen."
      ],
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        "broadly"
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        {
          "_dis1": "5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "any pen",
          "word": "plumo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "any pen",
          "word": "inkoskribilo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "any pen",
          "word": "kynä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "any pen",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Stift"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "any pen",
          "word": "plajbász"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2",
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "any pen",
          "word": "plumo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "any pen",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "penna"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "any pen",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pluma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 5 75 4 2 4 1 0 1 2",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "any pen",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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        {
          "ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 257, column 2:",
          "text": "I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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          "pointed"
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          "barbed"
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          "detach"
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        [
          "needle",
          "needle"
        ],
        [
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          "-like"
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        [
          "porcupine",
          "porcupine"
        ],
        [
          "hedgehog",
          "hedgehog"
        ],
        [
          "defense",
          "defense"
        ],
        [
          "predator",
          "predator"
        ]
      ],
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          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ʔibra",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "إِبْرَة"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "šawka",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "شَوْكَة"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "kaljúčka",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "калю́чка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "bodil",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "бодил"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "hpruhcu:",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "ဖြူဆူး"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "cì",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "刺"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "piikki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "piquant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "épine"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Stachel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "agkáthi",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "αγκάθι"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "broddur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "aculeo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "alt": "とげ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "toge",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "棘"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "gasi",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "가시"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "bocka",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "боцка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "ok",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "اوق"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "pa",
          "lang": "Punjabi",
          "roman": "takkaḷā",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ਤੱਕਲ਼ਾ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "igólka",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "иго́лка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "iglá",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "игла́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "bodlja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "bodljika"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "бодља"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "бодљика"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "púa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "pigg"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "diken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "word": "ok"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "15 5 4 55 8 1 4 2 2 3",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "hólka",
          "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "го́лка"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube."
      ],
      "id": "en-quill-en-noun-7x73kCQ9",
      "links": [
        [
          "bark",
          "bark"
        ],
        [
          "cinnamon",
          "cinnamon"
        ],
        [
          "cinchona",
          "cinchona"
        ],
        [
          "tube",
          "tube"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 2 0 3 84 1 1 2 2 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "cinnamon quill",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "thin piece of bark, curled into a roll",
          "word": "kanelitanko"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The pen of a squid."
      ],
      "id": "en-quill-en-noun-1-sHUxSM",
      "links": [
        [
          "pen",
          "pen"
        ],
        [
          "squid",
          "squid"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 4 2 1 83 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "pen of a squid",
          "word": "selkäkilpi"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments."
      ],
      "id": "en-quill-en-noun-Mq5ptcjt",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "plectrum",
          "plectrum"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:",
          "text": "He touched the tender stops of various quills.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The tube of a musical instrument."
      ],
      "id": "en-quill-en-noun-AtPgeOX4",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "tube",
          "tube"
        ],
        [
          "musical instrument",
          "musical instrument"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) The tube of a musical instrument."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 1 0 2 4 1 7 72 5 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "music: tube of a musical instrument",
          "word": "putki"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Weaving",
          "orig": "en:Weaving",
          "parents": [
            "Crafts",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:",
          "text": "His hair still stood up in punk-rock quills and spikes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle."
      ],
      "id": "en-quill-en-noun-4aWIZXS4",
      "links": [
        [
          "fold",
          "fold"
        ],
        [
          "plain",
          "plain"
        ],
        [
          "ruff",
          "ruff"
        ],
        [
          "weaving",
          "weaving#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "spindle",
          "spindle"
        ],
        [
          "spool",
          "spool"
        ],
        [
          "thread",
          "thread"
        ],
        [
          "woof",
          "woof"
        ],
        [
          "shuttle",
          "shuttle"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 2 0 3 3 2 2 2 66 18",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "something having the form of a quill",
          "word": "piikki"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mechanical engineering",
          "orig": "en:Mechanical engineering",
          "parents": [
            "Engineering",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Technology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952 September, “A Landmark in French Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 593:",
          "text": "The motors are attached to the bogie frames so as to be fully springborne, and drive through quills and flexible couplings to the wheels.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it."
      ],
      "id": "en-quill-en-noun-lSRtGcSN",
      "links": [
        [
          "mechanical engineering",
          "mechanical engineering"
        ],
        [
          "hollow",
          "hollow"
        ],
        [
          "shaft",
          "shaft"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "mechanical",
        "mechanical-engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kwɪl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kʰw̥ɪl]"
    },
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c0/En-us-quill.ogg/En-us-quill.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/En-us-quill.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪl"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "therrë"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "pero"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pjaró",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "пяро́"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "peró",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "перо́"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "鵝毛筆"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "émáobǐ",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "鹅毛笔"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "羽毛筆"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǔmáobǐ",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "羽毛笔"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pero"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fjerpen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "anserplumo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fjøður"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fjøðurpennur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fjaðurpennur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "sulkakynä"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "plume"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "pluma"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "péndola"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "baṭis prta",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "ბატის ფრთა"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schreibfeder"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Federkiel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Feder"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pénna",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "πέννα"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "קולמוס"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "penna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fjaðurpenni"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "plumo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "pero"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "calamo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penna d'oca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hane-pen",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "羽根ペン"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hane-pen",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "羽ペン"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "xal",
      "lang": "Kalmyk",
      "roman": "ödn",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "өдн"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "calamus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "pero",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "перо"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fjærpenn"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pióro"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "gęsie pióro"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pena"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "peró",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "перо́"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gusínoje peró",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "гуси́ное перо́"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "перо"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pero"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pero"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pero"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pluma"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "gåspenna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fjäderpenna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vingpenna"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bpàak-gaa",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "ปากกา"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "peró",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "перо́"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "24 24 9 13 11 5 6 3 2 4",
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
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      "word": "piss in a quill"
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      "word": "quill bit"
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      "word": "quill-driver"
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      "word": "tā"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "word": "atʼákaz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Poos"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ство́л пера́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "word": "kalem"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "word": "batrljica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "батрљица"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "word": "ปากกาขนนก"
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      "code": "mww",
      "lang": "White Hmong",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "word": "koob"
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    {
      "code": "nmn",
      "lang": "ǃXóõ",
      "sense": "lower shaft of a feather",
      "word": "gǃqhàẽ"
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    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "therrë"
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    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "pero"
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pjaró",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "鵝毛筆"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "émáobǐ",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "鹅毛笔"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "羽毛筆"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǔmáobǐ",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "羽毛笔"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "anserplumo"
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      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "fjøður"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
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      "tags": [
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    },
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      "code": "fo",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "sulkakynä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "plume"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "péndola"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "baṭis prta",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "ბატის ფრთა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schreibfeder"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Federkiel"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Feder"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "πέννα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "קולמוס"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "penna"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "plumo"
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      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "pero"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "羽根ペン"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
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      "code": "xal",
      "lang": "Kalmyk",
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      "sense": "pen made of feather",
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "calamus"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "sense": "pen made of feather",
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      ],
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      "code": "pl",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "pl",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pena"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "peró",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "перо́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gusínoje peró",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "гуси́ное перо́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
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        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "перо"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "pero"
    },
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pluma"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "gåspenna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fjäderpenna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vingpenna"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bpàak-gaa",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "ปากกา"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "peró",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "перо́"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "pen made of feather",
      "word": "penamaleplüm"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "any pen",
      "word": "plumo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "any pen",
      "word": "inkoskribilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "any pen",
      "word": "kynä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "any pen",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Stift"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "any pen",
      "word": "plajbász"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "any pen",
      "word": "plumo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "any pen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penna"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any pen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pluma"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "any pen",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bläckpenna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔibra",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "إِبْرَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "šawka",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "شَوْكَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "kaljúčka",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "калю́чка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bodil",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бодил"
    },
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      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "hpruhcu:",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "ဖြူဆူး"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pua"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "cì",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "刺"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "piikki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "piquant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "épine"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Stachel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "agkáthi",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "αγκάθι"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "broddur"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "aculeo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "とげ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "toge",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "棘"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gasi",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "가시"
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    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bocka",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "боцка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "ok",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "اوق"
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    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "takkaḷā",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ਤੱਕਲ਼ਾ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "igólka",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "иго́лка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "iglá",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "игла́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "bodlja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "bodljika"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бодља"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бодљика"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "púa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pigg"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "diken"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "word": "ok"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hólka",
      "sense": "needle-like structure that grows on the skin",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "го́лка"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "cinnamon quill",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "thin piece of bark, curled into a roll",
      "word": "kanelitanko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pen of a squid",
      "word": "selkäkilpi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "music: tube of a musical instrument",
      "word": "putki"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something having the form of a quill",
      "word": "piikki"
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        "3": "quyl"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English quyl",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "nds",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gml",
        "3": "quiele"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German quiele",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷelH-",
        "t": "to pierce, stick"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmh",
        "2": "kil",
        "3": "",
        "4": "large feather, quill"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings \"fragment of reed\" and \"shaft of a feather\", probably from Low German and Middle Low German quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”).\nCompare Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”), which is derived from the Low German term.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quills",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quilling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quilled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quilled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quill (third-person singular simple present quills, present participle quilling, simple past and past participle quilled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, David Francis Costello, The World of the Porcupine, J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 66:",
          "text": "Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter's Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 49:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pierce",
          "pierce"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 182:",
          "text": "Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry, City Lights, published 1976, page 11:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "write",
          "write"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To write."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To form fabric into small, rounded folds."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fabric",
          "fabric"
        ],
        [
          "smal",
          "smal"
        ],
        [
          "rounded",
          "rounded"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, David J. Wishart, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians, University of Nebraska Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 32:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To decorate with quillwork."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "quillwork",
          "quillwork"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Appalachian English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:quill."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "quilling",
          "quilling"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "especially Appalachia and the Prairies",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kwɪl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kʰw̥ɪl]"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/En-us-quill.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪl"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "piša",
      "sense": "to write",
      "word": "пиша"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nadipljam",
      "sense": "to form fabric into folds",
      "word": "надиплям"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quill"
}

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