quill

penna d'oca

Strumento per scrivere ricavato da una grande piuma d'uccello, con la punta da intingere nell'inchiostro.

In inglese semplice: A pen made from a large bird feather, used by dipping its point in ink.

• He wrote with a quill.
• She dipped her quill in black ink.
• The museum displays several quills beside an old letter.

Sinonimi: quill pen, feather pen

Espressioni comuni: quill pen, write with a quill, dip a quill

aculeo

Punta rigida e affilata che cresce sulla pelle di un animale, soprattutto dell'istrice, e serve a proteggerlo.

In inglese semplice: A stiff, sharp point growing from an animal's skin, especially a porcupine's, that helps protect it.

• A quill stuck in the dog's nose.
• The porcupine raised its quills.
• The vet carefully removed three quills from his paw.

Sinonimi: spine

Espressioni comuni: porcupine quill, sharp quill, remove a quill

calamo

Parte inferiore cava di una piuma, senza le ramificazioni morbide sui lati.

In inglese semplice: The hollow lower part of a feather, without the soft parts growing from its sides.

• The feather has a hollow quill.
• She examined the quill under a microscope.
• The quills were still attached to the bird's skin.

Sinonimi: calamus

Espressioni comuni: feather quill, hollow quill, base of a quill

penna

Qualsiasi penna per scrivere, soprattutto in uno stile antico o poetico.

In inglese semplice: A pen used for writing, especially when writing is described in an old or poetic style.

• The poet took up his quill.
• Her quill produced another beautiful verse.
• He laid his quill beside the unfinished story.

Sinonimi: pen

Espressioni comuni: take up a quill, a poet's quill, put a quill aside

ferire con aculei

Ferire una persona o un animale conficcandogli nella pelle gli aculei di un animale.

In inglese semplice: To hurt an animal or person by sticking sharp animal spines into their skin.

• Our dog got quilled in the woods.
• The porcupine quilled the dog's nose.
• A vet treated the puppy after it was quilled.

Come si usa: be/get quilled by something (The dog was quilled by a porcupine.)

Espressioni comuni: quill a dog, quill an animal

scrivere

Mettere parole per iscritto sulla carta.

In inglese semplice: To put words on paper.

• She quilled a short poem.
• The young poet quilled verses by candlelight.
• He quilled a letter to his distant love.

Sinonimi: write, pen

Espressioni comuni: quill a poem, quill a letter, quill a verse

pieghettare

Disporre un tessuto in una serie di piccole pieghe arrotondate.

In inglese semplice: To arrange cloth in a series of small, rounded folds.

• She quilled the ribbon by hand.
• The dressmaker quilled the fabric along the collar.
• We learned to quill a narrow strip of cloth.

Sinonimi: pleat

Espressioni comuni: quill fabric, quill a ribbon, quill the trim

soffiare pepe nel naso

Soffiare pepe nel naso di una donna durante il parto, secondo un’antica pratica volta ad accelerarlo.

In inglese semplice: To blow pepper into a woman's nose during childbirth in an old practice intended to speed birth.

• The old account describes a midwife quilling a woman.
• Some women were quilled with pepper during difficult births.
• The historian found records of mothers being quilled to hasten labour.

Espressioni comuni: quill a woman, quill during childbirth