English Dictionary

quill

IPA（発音記号）

/kwɪl/

動詞

比喩的用法 カナダ英語 アメリカ英語 他動詞

To pierce or be pierced with quills. / (figuratively) To write. / To form fabric into small, rounded folds. / To decorate with quillwork.

日本語の意味

針で突き刺す、または針で突かれる / （比喩的に）書く / 布地を小さな丸みを帯びた折り目に仕上げる / 針状の装飾を施す

If provoked, a porcupine can quill an unwary dog.

挑発されると、ヤマアラシは不用心な犬を棘で刺すことがある。

意味（1）

To pierce or be pierced with quills.

Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled.

意味（2）

(figuratively) To write.

Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin.

意味（3）

To form fabric into small, rounded folds.

意味（4）

To decorate with quillwork.

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.

意味（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).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:quill.

quills （ present singular third-person ）

quilling （ participle present ）

quilled （ participle past ）

quilled （ past ）