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Webster 1913 Edition
Quoil
Webster 1828 Edition
Quoil
QUOIL.
[See Coil, the better word.]Definition 2024
quoil
quoil
English
Noun
quoil (plural quoils)
- Archaic form of coil.
- 1763, A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: Volume 1 (page 823)
- […] a kettle or iron pot with a quoil or two of inch rope faſtened to its bale […]
- 1945, Frank Fraser Darling, Crofting agriculture: its practice in the West Highlands and islands
- The sooner the grass can be got into quoils the better, for not only does the quoil stage give temporary protection but hay makes a good deal in quoil.
- 1763, A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: Volume 1 (page 823)