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)
- (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
- Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (1903)
Anagrams
- calcio-, calico