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coilings

  • plural
    of coiling.
    coiling
    noun
    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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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 then one could write by its coilings prehensile.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

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

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

Limbs aching, he moved forward, with slow twists 59 and coilings of the body.

From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon