uncoil

Now it was contrary to all the most rigid laws of the porcupine kind to uncoil themselves in the face of danger.

As she spoke that weak thing within her seemed to uncoil, to grow suddenly tremendously strong; she longed to go!

I of course at once told him to uncoil it and get on the arte, from which he was not more than fifteen feet distant.

Carney saw him uncoil from his waist an ordinary packing rope; it was not a lariat, being short.