To hug or embrace.
"The old friends stood up and coll each other warmly before parting ways."
A medieval English short form of the male given name Nicholas; very rare today.
"The genealogist traced the family lineage back to a medieval ancestor known only by his nickname, Coll."
The word comes from the Middle English collen, which was borrowed from Old French to mean "to embrace" or "throw one's arms around someone's neck." Its ultimate roots lie in Latin, where it combined a prefix meaning "toward" with the word for "neck."