Those in use with port-fires for firing guns before the introduction of detonating and friction-tubes. (See tubes.)
See chain-pump. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A hollow spindle. II. Quill ·noun The fold or plain of a ruff. III. Quill ·noun The tube of ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill. ...
A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Captain's clerk, purser's secretary, et hoc genus omne. ...
A kind of portable priming, for insertion into the vent, of various patterns. (See friction-tube, ...