different between quoil vs quoif

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quoil (plural quoils)

Archaic form of coil.
- 1763, A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: Volume 1 (page 823)
  […] a kettle or iron pot with a quoil or two of inch rope fa?tened to its bale […]
- 1945, Frank Fraser Darling, Crofting agriculture: its practice in the West Highlands and islands
  The sooner the grass can be got into quoils the better, for not only does the quoil stage give temporary protection but hay makes a good deal in quoil.

quoif (plural quoifs)

Obsolete form of coif.
- 159?, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
  A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel / Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif! / Thou art a guard too wanton for the head / Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit.

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