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Coiling   Listen
verb
Coil  v. t.  (past & past part. coiled; pres. part. coiling)  
1.
To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
2.
To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils. (Obs. or R.)


Coil  v. i.  To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; often with about or around. "You can see his flery serpents... Coiting, playing in the water."


adjective
coiling  adj.  Helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled.





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"Coiling" Quotes from Famous Books



... though I saw several menacing forms passing through the dark aisles of the forest. At last I commenced to worry over Nobs' protracted absence and to fear that something had befallen him. I was coiling my rope to start out in search of him, when I saw the stallion leap into view at almost the same spot behind which he had disappeared, and at his heels ran Nobs. Neither was running so fast or furiously as when last I ...
— The People that Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... There are coiling weeds down there, the robber counselled him; there are thin, tough, snaky binders that will trip you and grip you, that will pull you and will not let you go again until you are drowned; until you ...
— Irish Fairy Tales • James Stephens
... articles necessary for an ocean voyage, and little else. Most of these were soiled from use, but there was among them a little clean, white apron, and this Mrs. Crawford put upon the child, after having washed her face and hands and brushed her wavy hair, which had a trick of coiling itself into soft, fluffy curls ...
— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes
... a few moments we saw the covers lifted from the boats and the crews allotted to them standing by and coiling up the ropes which were to lower them by the pulley blocks ...
— Sinking of the Titanic - and Great Sea Disasters • Various
... coiling the thin, braided hide reata, soft as a glove and strong as steel, which always hung ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough


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