accoll
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English acolen, from Old French acoler (whence modern French accoler), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”).
Verb
editaccoll (third-person singular simple present accolls, present participle accolling, simple past and past participle accolled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To embrace; cling to.
- 1840, James Henry, Miscellanies, page 123:
- Thrice raught I with mine arms to accoll her