Level-coil

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A boisterous and rowdy game formerly played on Christmas, in which players must quickly switch seats at a signal. historical, uncountable

    "[…] so they did, and entred the Parler, found all this leuell coyle, and his pate broken, his face scratcht […]"

Example

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"[…] so they did, and entred the Parler, found all this leuell coyle, and his pate broken, his face scratcht […]"

Etymology

A corruption of French lève-cul (“lift the buttocks”).

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