Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Quilling \Quill"ing\, n.
   (a) A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or
       plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.
   (b) One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.

Quill \Quill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quilled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Quilling}.]
   1. To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings;
      as, to quill a ruffle.

            His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff. --Goldsmith.

   2. To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn. --Judd.