coiling
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Pronunciation
Verb
coiling
- present participle and gerund of coil
Noun
coiling (plural coilings)
- The pattern or motion of something that coils.
- 1854, 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!"
- The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling.
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