accoil

English

Etymology

From Middle English aquylen, from Old French acoillir, from Vulgar Latin *accolligere, from Latin ad- + colligere. Compare Modern French accueillir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ(k).ˈkɔɪl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪl

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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     About the caudron many cooks accoild,
     With hooks and ladles , as need did require

Translations

nautical sense — see coil

Anagrams

• acocil, calcio-, calico