coil spring

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noun

any spring of wire coiled helically, having a cylindrical or conical outline.

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Origin of coil spring

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby coil spring

coiffure, coiffurist, coign, coign of vantage, coil, coil spring, Coimbatore, Coimbra, coin, coinage, coinage bronze

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How to use coil spring in a sentence

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
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This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
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It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
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Having graduated Juilliard last spring, Alex Sharp is too young to have given the performance of a lifetime.
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Althea is now re-scheduled with her surgeon for this spring.
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It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
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I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.
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In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.
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The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
In the spring of 1877 Mrs. Kipling came to England to see her children, and was followed the next year by her husband.
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British Dictionary definitions for coil spring

coil spring

noun

a helical spring formed from wire

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