quill

羽根ペン

大きな鳥の羽で作り、先をインクに浸して書くペン。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： quill pen, feather pen

よく使う表現： quill pen, write with a quill, dip a quill

針、とげ

特にヤマアラシなどの皮膚から生え、身を守るための硬く鋭い針。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： spine

よく使う表現： porcupine quill, sharp quill, remove a quill

羽軸の根元、羽柄

羽の下部にある中空の軸で、両側に柔らかい毛状の部分がないところ。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： calamus

よく使う表現： feather quill, hollow quill, base of a quill

ペン、筆

書くためのペンや筆。特に古風な表現や詩的な表現で使う。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： pen

よく使う表現： take up a quill, a poet's quill, put a quill aside

針を刺す

動物の鋭い針を人や動物の皮膚に刺して傷つける。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： be/get quilled by something (The dog was quilled by a porcupine.)

よく使う表現： quill a dog, quill an animal

書く

言葉を紙に書き記す。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： write, pen

よく使う表現： quill a poem, quill a letter, quill a verse

丸いひだをつける

布に小さな丸いひだを続けてつける。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： pleat

よく使う表現： quill fabric, quill a ribbon, quill the trim

鼻に胡椒を吹き込む

出産を早める目的で、産婦の鼻に胡椒を吹き込む昔の習慣。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： quill a woman, quill during childbirth