ppl. a. Obs. Nares suggests ‘coiled up into a small compass’; Halliwell, ‘inconvenienced.’
1604. Marston, etc. Malcontent, V. i. Wks. (1856). I could have carried a lady up and down at armes length, on a platter; and I can tell you there were those at that time who, to trie the strength of a mans backe and his arme, would be coisterd.
