Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gather together; crowd.
- noun Welcome; reception.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To gather together; to collect.
- transitive verb (Naut.) To coil together.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive (
obsolete ) Togather together ; tocollect . - verb transitive (
nautical ) Tocoil together.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old French acoillir "to receive", from Latin ad- + colligere "to collect".
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Examples
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‘tort’ (= wrong), ‘accoil’ (accuellir), ‘sell’ (= saddle), all occurring in Spenser; with ‘to serr’ (serrer), ‘vive’, ‘reglement’, used all by
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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