Definition of "quillions" []

• Plural form of quillion. (noun)

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• "He tilted the thing in his hands so that it caught the light from Petro's windows, and touched a hesitant finger first to the tiny number etched into the metal just beneath the threads for the nut, then to the maker's mark that was cut into the steel below the quillions, where it would be visible."
• "The sheath looked as if it had once had metal fittings; there were gaping sockets in the pommel and at the ends of the quillions of the sword that had undoubtedly once held gemstones."
• "Instead she'd made it into invisible, swift-moving armor, catching every cut on the quillions."