Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
coil .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
coil .
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- noun Archaic form of
coil .
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Examples
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Dey was oncet a awful quoil 'twixt de skillet an 'de pot 268
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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But de fiah uz so 'sgusted how dey quoil an' dey shout
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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Dey was oncet a awful quoil 'twixt de skillet an 'de pot;
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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Locus eft luculentiflimus 9 Qui manibus ingrediuntur prono in terram capite, quoil Hiftrionum pueri vulg6 faciunt, non nifi retr5 incedere polfunt; quod facile ad ex - plicandam Lucretii fententiam transferre poffis.
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700. ed 1770
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'long; but soon as ole Mis 'Twine see me she began to quoil.
P'laski's Tunament 1891 Thomas Nelson Page 1887
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Uim inlilleme fluJU ', novarum U! qu« & ad; ni - erum copia incredibiUs profluu: ii demum nores (icium, modo autiicores adroiraiione ilere, & uno in obiuta dcfiioshirerecogunt,, quoil in o» torit officio tcrtium ponitur, con - ientet omnigenercafiedumiijCcirumquepcr - timosfeTifm, Si qUDCUiKjue collibuit flcderc,
M. Antoni Mureti ... Orationes, epistolæ hymniqve saeri Marc Antoine Muret , Publilius 1660
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