Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Quilling"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Quilling \Quill"ing\, n.
(a) A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or
plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.
(b) One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.

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.


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