vbl. sb. [f. QUILL v.]

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  1.  The action of the vb. QUILL; esp. filling a quill with thread or yarn.

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c. 1640.  J. Smith, Lives Berkeleys (1883), I. 167. The charges in … quillinge, weavinge … and the like.

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1780.  A. Young, Tour Irel., I. 315. Quilling, warping, and winding; the quilling by children.

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1785.  T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), I. 440. I do not altogether despair of making something of your method of quilling [a harpsichord].

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1856.  Whittier, Ranger, vii. Leave your quilling, leave your spinning.

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  2.  A ribbon, strip of lace or other material gathered into small cylindrical folds resembling a row of quills.

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1813.  Lady Burghersh, Lett. (1893), 61. An immense quilling of lace or ribbon round the poke.

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1829.  Glover’s Hist. Derby, I. 247. Quillings or narrow edgings of lace.

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1882.  Standard, 11 Sept., 6/6. Quillings and ruchings continue dull.

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