quill feather

Questions about quill feather

What does quill feather mean?

quill feather means "any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird".

What is another word for quill feather?

Close synonyms include flight feather, pinion, quill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quill feather a common word?

quill feather is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.