Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Quilled

Quilled , adjective

Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills.
A sharp-quilled porcupine. — Shakespeare
Collocations (1)
Quilled suture (Surgery) , a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.