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quilling, vbl. n.|ˈkwɪlɪŋ|
[f. quill v.]
1. The action of the vb. quill; esp. filling a quill with thread or yarn.
c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 167 The charges in..quillinge, weavinge..and the like. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 315 Quilling, warping, and winding; the quilling by children. 1785Jefferson Writ. (1859) I. 440, I do not altogether despair of making something of your method of quilling [a harpsichord]. 1856Whittier Ranger vii, Leave your quilling, leave your spinning.
2. A ribbon, strip of lace or other material gathered into small cylindrical folds resembling a row of quills.
1790A. M. Woodforde Let. 3 Sept. in Parson Woodforde Soc. Jrnl. (1972) V. iii. 56 Lady Bacon was dress'd in a striped muslin Gown and Coat..and a quilling of Black Lace at the edge. 1813Lady Burghersh Lett. (1893) 61 An immense quilling of lace or ribbon round the poke. 1829Glover's Hist. Derby I. 247 Quillings or narrow edgings of lace. 1882Standard 11 Sept. 6/6 Quillings and ruchings continue dull.
3. U.S. The art of blowing distinctive sounds on the whistle of a steam locomotive. Cf. quill n.1 1 e.
1945F. H. Hubbard Railroad Avenue ii. 8 The engineman put on a whistle of his own with a tone that suited him and then practised a technique of blowing it that would be distinctive. This was called ‘quilling’ and was a highly developed art. 1947Richmond (Va.) News Leader 13 May 13/5 But the art of ‘quilling’, or ‘making her talk’, went out with electric and diesel locomotives, with their shrill horns and pneumatic whistles. 1966Listener 14 Apr. 542/1 The variety of weird sounds he was able to extract from the six-tone engine whistle of his own property—an art known in railroad vernacular as ‘quilling’. |