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Coiled

adjective

Curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals). "The rope lay coiled on the deck"

Coil

verb

(past & past part. coiled; pres. part. coiling)

To wind or move in a spiral course. Synonyms: gyrate, spiral. "Black smoke coiling up into the sky" , "The young people gyrated on the dance floor"

Make without a potter's wheel. Synonyms: hand-build, handbuild.

Wind around something in coils or loops. Synonyms: curl, loop.

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"Coiled" Quotes from Famous Books

... stood shaking. He fancied the darkness full of horses' heads, and would not stir. Clare had to get out again, and search for a place to suit his fancy, which he found in an untenanted loose-box, with remains of litter. There Tommy coiled himself up, ...

— A Rough Shaking • George MacDonald

... gorilla. And knowing this he suddenly exerted a single super-human effort, thrust far apart the giant hands and with the swiftness of a striking snake buried his fangs in the jugular of the Tor-o-don. At the same instant the creature's tail coiled about his own throat and then commenced a battle royal of turning and twisting bodies as each sought to dislodge the fatal hold of the other, but the acts of the ape-man were guided by a human brain and thus it was that the rolling bodies rolled in the direction that ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... cubits (45 feet) in length, and its beard was more than two cubits in length, and its body was covered with [scales of] gold, and the two ridges over its eyes were of pure lapis-lazuli (i.e. they were blue); and it coiled its whole length up before me. And it opened its mouth to me, now I was lying flat on my stomach in front of it, and it said unto me, "Who hath brought thee hither? Who hath brought thee hither, O miserable one? Who hath brought thee hither? If thou ...

— The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians • E. A. Wallis Budge

... having received a charge of mixed acids, the water is started running through the pipes coiled inside the tank, and a slight pressure of compressed air is turned on,[A] to mix the acids up well before starting. The nitration should not be commenced until the two thermometers register a temperature of 18 deg. C. The glycerine tap is then ...

— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford

... brailed in the foresail, and triced up the tack of the mainsail; which left the schooner in condition to be worked by less than a dozen hands. By the time that this had been accomplished, the running gear hauled taut, rope's-ends coiled down, and everything made ship-shape on board us, we had arrived within a distance of something like two miles of the frigate, at which juncture she fired a shot at us from her bow gun, possibly as a hint to us not to interfere with her. The shot ...

— The Rover's Secret - A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba • Harry Collingwood

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