ETYMOLOGY
obsolete or dialect form of ‘coil‘
EXAMPLE
“…I haue seene them, which haue seene such hurly burlies about a couple (that were no Fathers of the Church neither) Aristotle and Ramus, or els sake the Vniuersities, such a quoil with pro and con, such vrging of Ergoes, til they haue gone from Art togither by the eares, and made their conclusions end with a Clunchfist, right like the old description of Logicke…”
From: Plaine Perceuall, the Peace-maker of England
By Richard Harvey, 1590
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