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Quoil vs Quoif - What's the difference?

quoil | quoif |

As nouns the difference between quoil and quoif

is that quoil is while quoif is .

quoil

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 1763 , A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: Volume 1 (page 823)
  • * 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

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 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.