Coiling

//ˈkɔɪlɪŋ// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The pattern or motion of something that coils.

    "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!""

  2. 2
    The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of coil form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    in the shape of a coil wordnet

Synonyms

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helicalspiralspiralingspiralingspirallingturbinate

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"They hurried to the hayfield below the barn where Matthew was coiling hay."

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