The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
The word "quill" is correct and can be used in written English. You can use it to refer to a type of writing tool that uses a feather as the writing point, or to refer to the feather itself. Example sentence: I dipped my quill into the inkwell and began to write.
5 Reach into the body and pull out the clear, plastic-like quill.
"I have my blues," he thinks defensively, as he watches Quill mix up colours and remembers various skies he's seen.
Ganesh appears in some unofficial versions of the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic, as a scribe, whose quill pen breaks in his haste to record the poem as a sage recites it.
Medieval Christian monks preferred to use a quill, made from goose or swan feathers, and modern secular calligraphers often use the same antiquarian tool.
How this is done is quite beyond the comprehension of a quill-pen journalist.
The spirally arranged, quill-like leaves are divided into vertical rows of cavities that are connected to one central conducting strand.
But social ostentation was only a relaxation from phenomenal bouts of work 14 to 16 hours spent writing at his table in his white, quasi-monastic dressing gown, with his goose-quill pen and his endless cups of black coffee.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com