My quill ran out of ink this morning.
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Quill
//kwɪl//
Synonyms for "quill" (74 found)
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Closest matches (15)
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Related words (37)
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5 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesat location
2 entriesderived
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
has context
4 entriesis a
6 entriespart of
3 entriesrelated to
53 entriesShowing 16 of 53 words.
used for
11 entriesTranslations
129 translations across 50 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- therrë noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- therrë noun (pen made of feather)
Arabic
2 entries- إِبْرَة noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- شَوْكَة noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- pero noun (pen made of feather)
Belarusian
2 entries- калю́чка noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- пяро́ noun (pen made of feather)
Bulgarian
4 entries- бодил noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- перо́ noun (pen made of feather)
- надиплям verb (to form fabric into folds)
- пиша verb (to write)
Burmese
1 entries- ဖြူဆူး noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Catalan
4 entries- canó noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- càlam noun (pen made of feather)
- ploma noun (pen made of feather)
- pua noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 刺 noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- 羽毛筆 /羽毛笔 noun (pen made of feather)
- 鵝毛筆 /鹅毛笔 noun (pen made of feather)
Czech
2 entries- brk noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- pero noun (pen made of feather)
Danish
1 entries- fjerpen noun (pen made of feather)
Erzya
1 entries- толга noun (lower shaft of a feather)
Esperanto
4 entries- anserplumo noun (pen made of feather)
- inkoskribilo noun (any pen)
- kalamo noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- plumo noun (lower shaft of a feather)
Faroese
3 entries- fjaðurpennur noun (pen made of feather)
- fjøður noun (pen made of feather)
- fjøðurpennur noun (pen made of feather)
Finnish
4 entries- kanelitanko noun (thin piece of bark, curled into a roll)
- kynä noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- kynä noun (any pen)
- piikki noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
French
4 entries- piquant noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- plume noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- plume noun (pen made of feather)
- épine noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Galician
3 entries- cálamo noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- pluma noun (pen made of feather)
- péndola noun (pen made of feather)
Georgian
3 entries- ბატის ფრთა noun (pen made of feather)
- ფრთის ღერო noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- ღეპეპი noun (lower shaft of a feather)
German
4 entries- Feder noun (pen made of feather)
- Federkiel noun (pen made of feather)
- Kiel noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- Schreibfeder noun (pen made of feather)
Greek
2 entries- αγκάθι noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- πέννα noun (pen made of feather)
Hebrew
1 entries- קולמוס noun (pen made of feather)
Hungarian
2 entries- penna noun (pen made of feather)
- plajbász noun (any pen)
Icelandic
3 entries- broddur noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- fjaðurpenni noun (pen made of feather)
- fjaðurstafur noun (lower shaft of a feather)
Ido
3 entries- plumo noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- plumo noun (pen made of feather)
- plumo noun (any pen)
Ingrian
1 entries- pero noun (pen made of feather)
Italian
4 entries- aculeo noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- calamo noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- calamo noun (pen made of feather)
- penna noun (any pen)
Japanese
3 entries- 棘 noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- 羽ペン noun (pen made of feather)
- 羽根ペン noun (pen made of feather)
Kalmyk
1 entries- өдн noun (pen made of feather)
Korean
1 entries- 가시 noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Latin
1 entries- calamus noun (pen made of feather)
Macedonian
3 entries- боцка noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- перо noun (pen made of feather)
- перо noun (pen made of feather)
Māori
2 entries- tuaka noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- tā noun (lower shaft of a feather)
Navajo
1 entries- atʼákaz noun (lower shaft of a feather)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fjærpenn noun (pen made of feather)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اوق noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Poos noun (lower shaft of a feather)
Polish
2 entries- gęsie pióro noun (pen made of feather)
- pióro noun (pen made of feather)
Portuguese
1 entries- pena noun (pen made of feather)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਤੱਕਲ਼ਾ noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Russian
4 entries- гуси́ное перо́ noun (pen made of feather)
- игла́ noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- иго́лка noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- перо́ noun (pen made of feather)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- batrljica noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- bodlja noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- bodljika noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- kalem noun (lower shaft of a feather)
Slovak
3 entries- brko noun (pen made of feather)
- pero noun (pen made of feather)
- pichliač noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Slovene
1 entries- pero noun (pen made of feather)
Spanish
4 entries- cálamo noun (lower shaft of a feather)
- pluma noun (pen made of feather)
- pluma noun (any pen)
- péndola noun (pen made of feather)
Swedish
4 entries- bläckpenna noun (any pen)
- fjäderpenna noun (pen made of feather)
- gåspenna noun (pen made of feather)
- pigg noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Thai
2 entries- ปากกา noun (pen made of feather)
- ปากกาขนนก noun (lower shaft of a feather)
Turkish
2 entries- diken noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- ok noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
Ukrainian
2 entries- го́лка noun (needle-like structure that grows on the skin)
- перо́ noun (pen made of feather)
Volapük
1 entries- penamaleplüm noun (pen made of feather)
White Hmong
1 entries- koob noun (lower shaft of a feather)
ǃXóõ
1 entries- gǃqhàẽ noun (lower shaft of a feather)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Through a piece of linen he punched holes with a porcupine quill.
Source: tatoeba (10968851)
Next to Franklin's portrait is a tan quill and bronze-color inkwell, with the Liberty Bell drawn inside.
Source: tatoeba (11467047)
And when I read some of the said book, I thought about it and decided to translate it into English, and forthwith took a quill and ink and wrote a page or two, which I then examined to make corrections. And when I saw the sophisticated and unusual terms there, I feared it would displease some gentlemen who had lately blamed me, saying that my translations featured too many obscure terms that could not be understood by the common folk, and wanted me to use old and conventional terms in my translations. And I would be happy to satisfy every man, and with that in mind I took an old book and read from it; and certainly its English was so plain and varied that I struggled to understand it. And also my lord abbot of Westminster had recently shown me some texts written in old English, in order to translate them into our current English, and certainly they were written in such a way that they were more akin to German than English, and I could not translate them or make them understandable.
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