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
This coiling behavior appears to help snakes accommodate the exceptionally long bodies that distinguish them from every other vertebrate.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
This dynamic “implies a coiling that will eventually resolve in a sharp repricing,” wrote BMO Capital Markets’ head of U.S. rates strategy, Ian Lyngen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
She points out the spool of paper tickets in the box office, now coiling on the floor and ready to be counted.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Upwards it wound, coiling like a snake, boring its way across the sheer slope of rock.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
It flowed beautifully over her pretty small ears, and she would tie its fair coilings with fillets of black or blue velvet that carried pretty buckles of silver and paste.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
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