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
Such coiling action often resolves in an explosive move.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 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
To some suddenly it seemed that they saw a snake coiling itself to strike.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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
Limbs aching, he moved forward, with slow twists 59 and coilings of the body.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
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
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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