Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Quilled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quill \Quill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quilled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Quilling}.]
1. To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings;
as, to quill a ruffle.
His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff. --Goldsmith.
2. To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn. --Judd.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quilled \Quilled\, a.
Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills. ``A
sharp-quilled porcupine.'' --Shak.
{Quilled suture} (Surg.), a variety of stitch in which the
threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a
wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar
shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.
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