Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A quill or flight feather of a bird's wing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ornithology, one of the flight-feathers; one of the large stiff quill-feathers of a bird's wing which form most of its spread and correspond to the rectrices or rudder-feathers of the tail.

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  • noun a quill
  • noun the flight feather of a bird

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin rēmex, rēmig-, rower : rēmus, oar; see erə- in Indo-European roots + agere, to drive; see act.]

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Latin rower

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