different between choil vs coil

English

Etymology

Unknown; originally a dialectal term from Sheffield.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

choil (plural choils)

1. An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.
2. The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).

   This knife's large finger choil helps compensate for the short handle.

   1. (on fixed-blade knives) The portion where the heel meets the bolster.
   2. (on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.

See also

• ricasso

References

• http://www.knifeart.com/cusknifen.html
• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• -holic, choli

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?l?/

Noun

choil m

1. Lenited form of coil.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle French coillir (“to gather, pluck, pick, cull”) (French: cueillir), from Latin colligo (“to gather together”), past participle collectus, from com- (“together”) + lego (“to gather”); compare legend. Doublet of cull.

Noun

coil (plural coils)

1. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.

   • The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.

2. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
3. (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.

   Synonym: inductor

4. (figuratively) Entanglement; perplexity.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (koiru)

Translations

Verb

coil (third-person singular simple present coils, present participle coiling, simple past and past participle coiled)

1. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

2. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.

3. To wind cylindrically or spirally.

4. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
   • a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason

     Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

coil (plural coils)

1. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
   • a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

     And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III:

     If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?

   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 162:

     this great Savage desired also to see him. A great coyle there was to set him forward.

Derived terms

• mortal coil

Translations

Further reading

• coil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• coil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Clio, coli, loci

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?l?]

Noun 1

coil m

1. vocative/genitive singular of col (“prohibition; sin, lust; violation; dislike; incest; relation, relationship”)

Noun 2

coil m

1. inflection of col (“col”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation