[LINK] DNA Coil

[Jan Whitaker]

At 03:46 AM 26/09/2006, Karl Auer wrote:
>I'd like to see some *other* references, not just to Shakespeare. Did
>anyone else, particularly any contemporary of Shakespeare, use the word
>to mean "turmoil of life"?

on google, define coil yields nothing about turmoil, in life or otherwise
but
define mortal coil resulted in an interesting link citing the OED:
http://www.wordcourt.com/archives.php?show=2004-11-03

Evidently it was in use at the time, 16th c., and made sense to the mortals 
in the coil of the time.

Jan


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