- present participle of coil.
coiling
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coilings
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the act or process of arranging something, such as a cable, in the form of a coil or spiral, or of moving or growing in a pattern that resembles a coil or spiral.
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the installation of electromagnetic coils in the hull of a ship so that it can be demagnetized in order to escape detection by naval mines.
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Ceramics. a pottery technique in which the clay is rolled into a long, thin shape and coiled on itself in layers.
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The 2011 “Snake” dress, an oily, coiling swarm made of black polyvinyl, cotton and tulle, is a Hieronymus Bosch horror, everyone’s nightmare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
"Raul's CT scan of a snake embryo revealed a structure we had never seen before ¾ it was a pillar of gut stretching through the spiral of the coiling body," Miyashita says.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
All of it is held together via a coiling design that feels full of movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
Such coiling action often resolves in an explosive move.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
He looked almost solid now—a pale bearded king with cold eyes and tendrils of Mist coiling off his robes.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
Here, accordingly, the coilings of the wandering forms began to slide into strait layers, and soft settlement of vapor.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
And so saying, she threw herself upon her knees before the new-comer, and clasped her arms around her with a rapidity and suppleness that almost resembled the coilings of a snake.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
Could it be that the impulses released by the Keeper's coilings passed through the Metal People of the pave on the upthrust Metal People of the crater rim who held the shields?
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
Dark huddled coilings from the obscene depths, Black, formless shadow, Shadow.
From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét
They were become gliding lengths of muscle as swift, as loathsome in their supple dartings and coilings as any snake lashing across the expanses of primeval jungle.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various
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