accoil

English

Etymology

From Middle English aquylen, from Old French acoillir (“to receive”) (French accueillir), from Latin *accolligō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /æ(k).ˈkɔɪl/[1][2]

Verb

accoil (third-person singular simple present accoils, present participle accoiling, simple past and past participle accoiled)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To gather together; to collect.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Translations
nautical sense — see coil

References
  1. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  2. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1903)

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