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