quill

pluma de ave, pluma

Instrumento hecho con una pluma grande de ave, cuya punta se moja en tinta para escribir.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: quill pen, feather pen

Expresiones frecuentes: quill pen, write with a quill, dip a quill

púa

Punta rígida y afilada que sale de la piel de ciertos animales, especialmente del puercoespín, y sirve para defenderse.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: spine

Expresiones frecuentes: porcupine quill, sharp quill, remove a quill

cálamo, cañón de pluma

Parte inferior hueca de una pluma, sin las ramificaciones suaves de los lados.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: calamus

Expresiones frecuentes: feather quill, hollow quill, base of a quill

pluma

Cualquier pluma o bolígrafo para escribir, especialmente en un estilo antiguo o poético.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: pen

Expresiones frecuentes: take up a quill, a poet's quill, put a quill aside

herir con púas

Lastimar a una persona o un animal clavándole púas de animal en la piel.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

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

Expresiones frecuentes: quill a dog, quill an animal

escribir

Poner palabras por escrito en papel.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: write, pen

Expresiones frecuentes: quill a poem, quill a letter, quill a verse

hacer pliegues redondeados

Formar en una tela una serie de pliegues pequeños y redondeados.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: pleat

Expresiones frecuentes: quill fabric, quill a ribbon, quill the trim

soplar pimienta en la nariz

Soplar pimienta en la nariz de una mujer durante el parto, según una antigua práctica destinada a acelerarlo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: quill a woman, quill during childbirth