Quill (disambiguation)

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• A quill is a pen made from a feather.

Quill may also refer to:

• Quill (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Quill (surname), an Irish surname
• The Quill (Bowdoin), Bowdoin's literary magazine
• Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, a United States Supreme Court case regarding use tax
• Quill drive, a mechanism to connect drive shafts together so they need not be oriented in the same direction;
• Quill Lake, Saskatchewan
• Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists
• The protruding movable shaft in a tailstock of a lathe
• The rotating moveable shaft in a pillar drill, arranged so that the quill is moved by a rack and pinion arrangement to advance the drill bit into the workpiece
• The Quill Awards, a set of awards for books
• The Quill (volcano), a volcano on St. Eustatius
• The spiny barbs of a porcupine
• Quill Corporation
• Quill stem (bicycle part), one type of the component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the steerer tube of the bicycle fork
• Quill (satellite), a reconnaissance satellite programme
• The Quill (newspaper), the student newspaper at Brandon University
• Quill (comics), the X-Men character

Computer software

• Quill Wordprocessor, Psion software
• QUILL, programming language used in Quintiq software
• The Quill, a 1983 computer program to write adventure games
• Quill, an automated narrative generator from Narrative Science

Music

• Quill (band), a US band that played at the Woodstock festival
• The Quill (band), a Swedish stoner rock/metal band
• Quills (band), a grindcore band from Baltimore
• Quill, one of many plectra in a harpsichord, made from a feather or synthetic material
• The quills, an old word in the United States and Britain for pan pipes

Films

• Quill (film), a 2004 Japanese movie
• Quills, a 2000 English movie