What does coll mean?
Coll means (ambitransitive) To hug or embrace..
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/kɑl/ · verb
(ambitransitive) To hug or embrace..
So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly
"As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ...
'You couldn't expect her to throw her arms round 'ee, an' to kiss and to coll 'ee all at once.'
They kissed and colled in parks and fields and, better, a / Warm bed, her own.
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Coll means (ambitransitive) To hug or embrace..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly
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