accoll
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French acoler (whence modern French accoler), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”).
Verb[edit]
accoll (third-person singular simple present accolls, present participle accolling, simple past and past participle accolled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To embrace; cling to.
- 1840, James Henry, Miscellanies, page 123:
- Thrice raught I with mine arms to accoll her