Definitions

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  • noun An unfledged bird.

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  • noun One who creates decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.

Etymologies

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quill +‎ -er

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Examples

  • My grandmother on my dad's side was an amazing quiller.

    Sunday Sweets: Gettin' Crafty 2010

  • And I got on up to where I got on the quiller machine; I think it paid fifteen cents an hour.

    Oral History Interview with Murphy Yomen Sigmon, July 27, 1979. Interview H-0142. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1979

  • After having worked for two months as a quiller on the evening shift at the Passaic Cotton Mills, I applied for work at the Wool Council of Passaic and was there given a card which entitled me to apply for work directly at any one of the woolen mills in Passaic, including the Forstman Hoffmann Mills .... on applying at the Passaic Plant I was closely questioned and told that seeing that I had had a high school education the personnel worker thought she could make a forelady of me.

    Excerpt from "Deposition of Justine Wise, City of New Haven" Jewish Women's Archive 1926

  • After having worked for two months as a quiller on the evening shift at the Passaic Cotton Mills, I applied for work at the Wool Council of Passaic and was there given a card which entitled me to apply for work directly at any one of the woolen mills in Passaic, including the Forstman Hoffmann Mills .... on applying at the Passaic Plant I was closely questioned and told that seeing that I had had a high school education the personnel worker thought she could make a forelady of me.

    Excerpt from "Deposition of Justine Wise, City of New Haven" Jewish Women's Archive 1926

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