quilled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of quill
Example Sentences
- "In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade Oppose himself against a troop of kerns, And fought so long till that his thighs with darts Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;"
- "He leaned down to inspect a white-quilled cactus, and then spotted a different kind with skinnier branches and only a few drab spines."
- "A quilled lionfish was face to face with a saurian moray eel, sizing it up before swimming on."
- "In the wild state the flowers are single—that is to say, only the outer florets are strap-shaped, and usually of a rosy-lilac tint, with yellowish disc florets; but under cultivation, all the florets have become ligulate or quilled […]"
- "Round the throat is a ruff of white muslin, quilled in large reverse plaids; […]"
- "He insensibly began to alter his appearance; his cravat seemed quilled into a ruff, and his breeches swelled out into a farlingale. I now fancied him changing sexes; and as my eyes began to close in slumber, I imagined my fat landlord actually converted into as fat a landlady."
Etymology
From quill + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more quilled (comparative)
most quilled (superlative)