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A vast stone near Stantin Drew, in Somersetshire; so called from a tradition that it was a coil thrown by Sir John Hautville. In Wiltshire three huge stones near Kennet are called the Devil’s coits.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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