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Webster 1828 Edition


Coiling

COILING

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ppr.
Gathering or winding into a ring or circle.

Definition 2024


coiling

coiling

English

Verb

coiling

  1. present participle of coil

Noun

coiling (plural coilings)

  1. The pattern or motion of something that coils.
    • Herman Melville, The Encantadas
      Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"