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单词 level-coil
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level-coiln.

Forms: 1500s–1600s level(l coyl(e, coile, 1600s levell acoile, leve le cull, leve-le-queue.
Etymology: Corruptly < French phrase (faire) lever le cul (à quelqu'un) , to make a person rise from his seat (lever to raise, cul buttock): see Cotgrave, and compare coil n.4 The French name of the game is lève-cul (Littré s.v. lever): compare the English equivalent in quot. 1656. Florio has an Italian levaculo.
Obsolete.
A rough, noisy game, formerly played at Christmas, in which each player is in turn driven from his seat and supplanted by another; cf. level-sice n. Hence = riotous sport, noisy riot; phrase to keep level-coil. Also used adverbially = turn and turn about, alternately.
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level-sicea1529
level-coil1594
Friar Rush1603
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F2v The next daie they had solempne disputations, where Luther and Carolostadius scolded leuell coile.
1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. C4v They..entred the Parler, found all this leauill coyle, and his pate broken his face scratcht [etc.].
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Leuacúlo, itch-buttocke, leue le cull.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia i. 18 The mothers smile Brought forth the daughters blush; and leuell coyle They smil'd and blush; one smile begate another.
a1630 Faithful Friends (1975) i. ii. 465 What coyle is heere, leuell coyle you see, euery mans pott.
a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub iii. v. 30 in Wks. (1640) III Young Justice Bramble has kept levell coyle Here in our Quarters, stole away our Daughter. View more context for this quotation
1647 R. Herrick To God, his Gift in Noble Numbers 72 As my little Pot doth boyle, We will keep this Levell-Coyle.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 157 Thus did Episcopacy and Presbytery play Leve-le-queve, and take their turns of Government for about 30 years.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Level-Coile is when three play at Tables, or other Game, where onely two can play at a time, and the loser removes his Buttocks, and sits out, and therefore called also Hitch-Buttock.
1684 Observator No. 129 An Ecclesiastical way of (Leve-Cul, or) Level-Coyle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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