Pen vs. Quill

Pennoun

An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

Pennoun

(slang) A prison cell.

Pennoun

(baseball) The bullpen.

Pennoun

A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

Pennoun

(figurative) A writer, or his style.

Pennoun

(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.

Pennoun

A light pen.

Pennoun

(zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

Pennoun

A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

Pennoun

(poetic) A wing.

Pennoun

A female swan.

Pennoun

penalty

Penverb

(transitive) To enclose in a pen.

Penverb

(transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).

Pennoun

A feather.

Pennoun

A wing.

Pennoun

An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.

Pennoun

Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.

Pennoun

The internal shell of a squid.

Pennoun

A female swan; - contrasted with cob, the male swan.

Pennoun

A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.

Pennoun

A penitentiary[6]; a prison.

Penverb

To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.

Penverb

To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.

Pennoun

a writing implement with a point from which ink flows

Pennoun

an enclosure for confining livestock

Pennoun

a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play

Pennoun

a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes

Pennoun

female swan

Penverb

produce a literary work;

Pennoun

an instrument for writing or drawing with ink, typically consisting of a metal nib or ball, or a nylon tip, fitted into a metal or plastic holder.

Pennoun

the occupation of writing

Pennoun

an electronic device like a pen, used in conjunction with a writing surface to enter commands or data into a computer.

Pennoun

the tapering cartilaginous internal shell of a squid.

Pennoun

a small enclosure in which sheep, pigs, or other farm animals are kept

Pennoun

a number of animals in or sufficient to fill a pen

Pennoun

any small enclosure in which someone or something can be confined

Pennoun

a covered dock for a submarine or other warship

Pennoun

(in the West Indies) a farm or plantation.

Pennoun

a female swan.

Pennoun

short for penitentiary (sense 1)

Penverb

write or compose

Penverb

put or keep (an animal) in a pen

Penverb

confine someone in a restricted space

Pen

A pen is a common writing instrument used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used, with a nib dipped in ink.

Quillnoun

The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.

Quillnoun

A pen made from a feather.

Quillnoun

(figuratively) Any pen.

Quillnoun

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.

Quillnoun

A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.

Quillnoun

The pen of a squid.

Quillnoun

(music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

Quillnoun

(music) The tube of a musical instrument.

Quillnoun

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.

Quillverb

To pierce or be pierced with quills.

Quillverb

(figuratively) To write.

Quillverb

To form fabric into small, rounded folds.

Quillverb

To decorate with quillwork.

Quillverb

To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).

Quillnoun

One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.

Quillnoun

A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.

Quillnoun

A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.

Quillnoun

The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

Quillnoun

Something having the form of a quill

Quillnoun

A roll of dried bark; as, a quill of cinnamon or of cinchona.

Quillverb

To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.

Quillverb

To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.

Quillnoun

pen made from a bird's feather

Quillnoun

a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog

Quillnoun

any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird

Quillnoun

the hollow shaft of a feather

Quill

A quill is a writing tool made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen.