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Перевод: quill

[существительное]
птичье перо; ствол пера; гусиное перо для письма; игла дикобраза; стержень поплавка; зубочистка ; перо, употребляемое как плектр; свирель ; дудка ; шпуля ; шпулька ; ткацкий челнок; уточная шпуля; уточный патрон; втулка ; полый вал;
[глагол]
гофрировать; плоить; перематывать уток; наматывать

Тезаурус:

1. The scheme has many similarities (by accident rather than by design, as it happens) with the Quill system for preparing conventional paper documents.
2. Corbett returned to his cell, carefully bolted the door and drew from a large leather pouch, parchment, pumice-stone, inkhorn, quill pens, a long thin razor-edged knife and a wad of red sealing-wax.
3. The brave young hedgehog did not quiver a quill.
4. Sometimes it is shown as having bat wings as well, and Indonesian records describe each quill in the beast's tail as being tipped in poisonous juices of the upas tree for added impetus.
5. There do exist excellent WYSIWYG systems that are centred on the logical nature of material, notably Grif and Quill.
6. This is how they end, all those deals done hurriedly long ago in some canopied bed, a quill pen scratching the vellum.
7. An apotheosis of "states of mind" is established by the gifted editor from whose versatile quill we expect much; and "expect", we learn to our delight, is itself a "state of mind".
8. He then wrote, his quill pen scratching a piece of vellum.
9. Guide could equally well have been designed, like Quill, to use an SGML mark-up.
10. Edward Topsel, the English naturalist, writing in 1658 stipulated that, to cure blindness, or pains in the eye: "Take the head of a black Cat, which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within, then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye" - the italics were not used in the original, but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head.
11. The point of the quill broke through the paper where it lay over an incised letter and a woman in the group pushed the man with the pen and crowed out, "Donal, you great fool - the King will never read that now!"
12. It is worth considering that hands long formed to the sword, reins, shield and other military accoutrements become stiffened and calloused and it may be that the use of a small stylus or quill was physically difficult for Charles; we can be in no doubt about his energy and intelligence.
13. But the American War of Independence was not about territories and Powers, it was about freedom and liberties, and the victory was forged as much by the quill pen as the sword, by the men who wrote and signed a document not unlike the Declaration of Arbroath in content, the Declaration of Independence.