quilled

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I have "quilled" for her many a time--that is, run the yarn off the reel into spools for use in the shuttle Father had a flock of sheep which yielded wool enough for our stockings, mittens, comforts, and underwear, and woollen sheets and comforts for the beds.

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  1. Furnished with quills. His thighs with darts Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. l. 363.
  2. Formed into a quill: said of bark: as, quilled calisaya, contrasted with flat calisaya. In drying it [cinchona-bark] rolls up or becomes quilled. U. S. Dispensatory (15th ed.), p. 433.
  3. In heraldry, having a quill: said of a feather employed as a bearing, and used only when the quill of a feather is of a different tincture from the rest.
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  • Since 1996, 260 of the tiny, quilled critters have found safety at the rescue that was started by Z.G. Standing Bear, a former criminal investigator in the Army who later became a teacher of criminology and forensic science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Colorado State University. —  Victorville Daily Press :
  • Hand Crafted by our Western Artists, including beaded porcupine-quilled Western-Style hatbands, hand-tooled and painted leather belts, and custom hat racks.
  • The "quilled pig" benefits the environment by eating leaves in the tops of the trees, bringing sunlight to the forest floor and allowing other plants to grow, thus providing food and shelter for other animals. —  The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories
  • The most striking element of the pipestem is an entire set of colorfully quilled eagle tail feathers, usually from a young golden eagle, not a bald eagle. —  prairiemary
  • Used to blazon the quills of feathers: thus, a blue feather having its quill golden is blazoned--_A feather az., quilled or Radiant. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
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