Dictionary entry

Quilled

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quilled (?), a. Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills. “A sharp-quilled porcupine.” Shak.

Quilled suture(Surg.), a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.