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Quelled vs Quilled - What's the difference?

quelled | quilled |

As verbs the difference between quelled and quilled

is that quelled is (quell) while quilled is (quill).

As an adjective quilled is

having quills or similar structures.

quelled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (quell)

    • quell

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To kill.
    • (Spenser)
  • To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit.
  • * Macaulay
    • The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.
  • * Longfellow
    • Northward marching to quell the sudden revolt.
  • To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish.
    • to quell grief
    to quell the tumult of the soul
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2014 , date=December 13 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Burnley 1-0 Southampton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However, after quelling Burnley's threat, Southampton failed to build on their growing danger culminating in Tadic's missed penalty.}}
  • (obsolete) To be subdued or abated; to diminish.
  • * Spenser
    • Winter's wrath begins to quell .
  • To die.
  • * Spenser
    • Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell .

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) Quelle .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spring or fountain.
    • English terms with multiple etymologies

    quilled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having quills or similar structures
  • * 1594 , , Henry VI, Part 2 , Act III, Scene I:
    • In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade
    Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,
    And fought so long till that his thighs with darts
    Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;
  • * 2010 , T. Lloyd Winetsky, Maria Juana's Gift: A Novel , Sunstone Press (2010), ISBN 978-0-86534-779-3, page 148:
    • He leaned down to inspect a white-quilled cactus, and then spotted a different kind with skinnier branches and only a few drab spines.
  • * 2011 , Alesa Corrin, Jonathan: The Griffin Prince , AuthorHouse (2011), ISBN 978-1-4567-4091-7, page 234:
    • A quilled lionfish was face to face with a saurian moray eel, sizing it up before swimming on.
  • (of a flower) having long, narrow petals or florets
  • * 1889 , William Robinson, The English Flower Garden: Style, Position, And Arrangement , John Murray (1899), page 291:
    • In the wild state the flowers are single—that is to say, only the outer florets are strap-shaped, and usually of a rosy-lilac tint, with yellowish disc florets; but under cultivation, all the florets have become ligulate or quilled […]
  • created through the process of quilling
  • (of fabric) having small, rounded folds
  • * 1844 , , Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 1 , R. Bentley (1844), page 169:
    • Round the throat is a ruff of white muslin, quilled in large reverse plaids; […]
  • * 1909 , Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London , L.C. Page and Company (1909):
    • He insensibly began to alter his appearance; his cravat seemed quilled into a ruff, and his breeches swelled out into a farlingale. I now fancied him changing sexes; and as my eyes began to close in slumber, I imagined my fat landlord actually converted into as fat a landlady.
  • decorated with quillwork

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (quill)