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▪ I. † coll, n.1 Obs.
[f. coll v.1]
An embrace round the neck.
1604Middleton Witch 71 A kisse, a coll, a sip of blood.
▪ II. † coll, n.2 Obs.
? A bundle.
1512Will of W. Willis (Somerset Ho.), ix Collis of Gynger..x Collis of Clowys. c1524Churchw. Acc. St. Mary Hill Lond. (Nichols 1797) 126 Two lode of fawle wode in bellets, in colls.
▪ III. coll, n.3
? var. of cull, fool, dupe, simpleton.
1657T. Jordan Walks Isling. ii. xii, We are no colls you, you must not flam us. 1674Cotton Compl. Gamester in Singer Hist. Cards (1816) 334 These rooks..discover some inexperienced young gentleman..unskilled in the quibbles and devices there practised; these they call lambs or colls.
▪ IV. † coll, n.4 Obs. Oxford slang.
College ale.
1726Amherst Terræ Fil. xxxiii. 173 Men, who..make them their evening entertainment over a tankard of coll, and a pipe of tobacco. Ibid. xxxiv. 181 The fellows valued themselves for having the best single and double coll in the university.
▪ V. coll, cole, n.5 Sc.
[Thought by some identical with Icel. kollr top, summit, crown, round head. Its relation to coil n.5, used in same sense, is uncertain.]
A cock of hay.
1768Ross Helenore 53 (Jam.) Aneth a coll of hay. 1823Caledon. Merc. 6 Sept. (Jam.), Hay..is selling from the cole at the rate of from 6d. to 7d. per stone.
▪ VI. † coll, v.1 Obs.
Also 4–5 koll, 4–7 colle; see also cull.
[Either aphetic form of acole, accoll, or a. F. cole-r = accoler to put the arms round the neck, deriv. of F. col:—L. collum neck.]
1. trans. To throw one's arms round the neck of; to embrace, hug. Often absol.
c1320R. Brunne Medit. 932 She kolled hyt, she clypped hyt up on here brest. c1320Sir Beues 425 Whi colles þow aboute þe swire Þat ilche dame? 1388Wyclif Gen. xxxiii. 4 And so Esau ran aȝens his brothir, and collide [1382 cleppide] hym. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon iv. 122 To colle and kysse theym. 1594Marlowe & Nashe Dido iv. iii, Her silver arms will coll me round about. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. iii. iv. (1651) 483 Full liberty to sing, dance, kiss, coll. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. xix. (1737) 85 They coll'd and clipt us about the Neck.
fig.1537Latimer Serm. bef. Convoc. 6 In hart and worke they coll and kisse him.
2. transf. To clasp, hug.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxvi. 97 The mast of the shippe, which [he] enbraced & colled sore fast wyth bothe his armes. 1575Turberv. Venerie lxxvii. 215 They are maruelous strong in their pawes, wherwith they coll in a Manne or Dogge, in suche sorte, that many times they kill and smoother them. 1606R. Turnbull in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xv. 5 As the ivy colleth and claspeth the oak..so the usurer colleth..and claspeth in arms the borrower.
¶ Confused in Dicts. with cole v.1, q.v.
▪ VII. coll, v.2 Obs. exc. Sc.
Also 6 coul, and see cow.
[Of doubtful etymology: perhaps related to Icel. kollr head, poll, shaven crown, kolla a beast without horns, a pollard or polled cow, etc. In Icel. kolla has only the sense ‘to hit on the head’, but Norw. kylla has the sense ‘to poll, prune, cut’.]
trans. To poll, cut off the hair of, shear, clip, cut close. Ascham uses coul for ‘to pare or cut down the feather of an arrow’.
Hence colled ppl. a.; ˈcolling vbl. n.
1483Cath. Angl. 72 To Colle [printed colke], tondere. 1535Coverdale Isa. xv. 2 All their heades were colled, and all their beardes shauen. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 128 In couling or sheryng [the feather of an arrow], whether high or lowe. Ibid. 131 You maye knowe it afore it be pared..and agayne when it is colde. 1617Markham Caval. v. 20 Then you shall take a paire of sharpe colling sheares and colle the inside of his eares, as close to the skinne as may bee. 1808–79Jamieson, To coll the hair, to poll it. To coll the candle, to snuff the candle. 1877W. Lytteil Landm. i. ii. 20 To write the last term in a colled or syncopated form.
▪ VIII. [coll
a frequent misreading in reprints, glossaries, and dictionaries for toll.]
▪ IX. coll
var. of cole n.2
▪ X. coll(e
var. of cowl, Obs., tub, barrel. |