Quoil

(kwoil or koil)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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The last inhabitant of these woods before me was an Irishman, Hugh Quoil (if I have spelt his name with coil enough), who occupied Wyman's tenement -- Col.

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One of his first encounters there was with Hugh Quoil, an Irishman who had fought at Waterloo.

Collins, Field, Quoil: the houses of the three Irish families serve as an alternative version of his own experiment, past, present, and future, in a history of failure.

When Hugh Quoil dies in the road, it is little wonder that Thoreau surveys his deserted shack with such fascination.

House-building and house-holding at Walden

She said: "We were heading toward the Quoil Bridge in Downpatrick when the bus seemed to slip on the side of the road.