A hollow spindle.

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

The tube of a musical instrument.

A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the
thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

Something having the form of a quill

The pen of a squid. See Pen.

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.

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.

A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.

The fold or plain of a ruff.