quill

Written using quill and ink, the letter dated 4 September 1892 reveals the names of three engineers who installed a new type of light in the 30ft tower.

South American porcupines are equipped with a menacing coat of hollow, overlapping quills, which offer a substantial amount of protection but do little to regulate body temperature.

There he poked the quill into the soft, rotting wood of his floor, where it stood erect, a sort of talisman.

And so I filled my inkwell, put a quill pen to my chin and cried, “A playlist is in order!”

A new quill assembly design is being finalized and testing of a prototype should begin early next year, it said.