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colled

colled is the simple past and past participle of coll.

Meaning of coll

Verb

coll (third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To hug or embrace.
    • So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 420

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Questions about colled

What is colled the simple past and past participle of?
Colled is the simple past and past participle of coll.

Words near colled in the dictionary

  1. collects dust
  2. collects one's thoughts
  3. collects oneself
  4. collects skin
  5. collects up
  6. colled
  7. colledg
  8. colledge
  9. colledges
  10. colleen
  11. colleens

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