quills

For this reason, my mother said, I should not do much alone in quills until I was as tall as my cousin Warca-Ziwin.

American Indian Stories 1921

Sometimes the yodling was aided by what the Texan boys called "quills" -- two or more pipes made of reed -- _cane_

Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896

Towering above the other spices at that market stall are the long, fragrant sticks (called "quills") of true cinnamon.

Cinnamon: Mexican cooks use the real thing 2004

Towering above the other spices at that market stall are the long, fragrant sticks (called "quills") of true cinnamon.

Cinnamon: Mexican cooks use the real thing 2004

Gold is still washed in this river, and possibly these hands, or fingers, refer to the days worked here washing gold, or to the number of 'quills' of gold obtained.

Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century George Forbes

Malinda said the slaves danced to "quills," a home-made reed instrument.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

Here we have described in the Negro's own way the long form of instrumental music composition which we have hitherto discussed, and "quills" and "tr'angles" are given as the instruments.

Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

The "quills," or reed pipes, were cut of such graduated lengths that they constituted the

Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

While drying they are cut up into long narrow rolls, called "quills," then stuck into one another, so as to form pipes about three or four feet long, which are afterwards made up in round bundles.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

So woe-begone and worn were their faces that their friends might have been excused had they failed to recognise them, but, even in the depths of his misery and state of semi-starvation, it was impossible to mistake the expressive visage of poor Squill, whose legs were indeed reduced to something not unsuggestive of "quills," to say nothing of the rest of his body.

The Crew of the Water Wagtail 1859