Cryptic crossword clue
Two parts of pen or one? 5-3

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word QUILL

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What does QUILL mean?

QUILL noun
  1. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
  2. A pen made from a feather.
  3. Any pen.
  4. A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
  5. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
  6. The pen of a squid.
  7. The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
  8. The tube of a musical instrument.
  9. Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
QUILL verb
  1. To pierce or be pierced with quills.
  2. To write.
  3. To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
  4. To decorate with quillwork.
  5. To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).

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