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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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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

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

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

Dark huddled coilings from the obscene depths, Black, formless shadow, Shadow.

From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét

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

From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon