accoil

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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)

Anagrams

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