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are coiling
  • present progressive of coil.

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Two Guardians have moved forward and are coiling up the thick rope, getting it out of the wav- Others move the cushions.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

But no, it’s ‘haul in the slack;’ he is rising; they are coiling away the line in the tubs.”

From Charley Laurel A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land by Lumley, Savile