coll

Definitions

To hug or embrace.

ambitransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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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