1A quill pen made from a large feather of a crow's wing, formerly used for fine writing.
- 1.1also crow-quill pen A small, fine pen for map drawing.
Example sentencesExamples
- I know what it takes in time and effort to fill that space with a crow-quill pen.
- I use the ‘old style’ drawing tools: a crow-quill pen which is dipped into a bottle of ink and then scratched on the paper.
- After which they picked up their crow quill pens and resumed scratching away at the parchment ledger books.
- His technique includes two styles - a fine-line application using a crow-quill pen and a bold-line applied by mechanical pen.
- Throughout his career, Millar remained true to the old school of cartoonists: All of his drawings were done with crow-quill pens and were hand-lettered.