accoil
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English aquylen, from Old French acoillir, from Vulgar Latin *accolligere, from Latin ad- + colligere. Compare Modern French accueillir.
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Verb[edit]
accoil (third-person singular simple present accoils, present participle accoiling, simple past and past participle accoiled)
- (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[edit]
nautical sense — see coil
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