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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

... to a patch that looked like the contents of a pot, suddenly petrified in the act of boiling; sometimes the black, iridescent lava had assumed the form of waves, or more frequently of huge masses of rope, twisted and coiled together; sometimes it was piled up like a collection of organ pipes, or had gathered into mounds ...

— Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools • Emilie Kip Baker

... grinding through the hollow hush. There was a split, a splintering, a dull boom of titanic weight falling, miles away. They saw the puff of snow dust fly up in a toss of mist over the face of the distant upper crags. Then, a grinding tore the earth; something white glistening viscous crumpled—coiled with untellable furious speed, shaggy and formless, out from the upper peaks—coiled and writhed out like a giant python in titanic torture. For an instant, for less than the fraction of an instant, it poised and coiled and looped ...

— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut

... think, that wants boilin' down bad. Some day they'll do it, maybe; they'll have to when all the good country's stocked up. After Warrigal had his supper he went out again to see his horse, and then coiled himself up before the fire and wouldn't hardly say ...

— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... oracular word From the snow-topped rock that we gaze on heard, Counsels of thy glorious giving Manifest for all men living, How thou madest the tripod of prophecy thine Which the wrath of the dragon kept guard on, a shrine Voiceless till thy shafts could smite All his live coiled ...

— A Channel Passage and Other Poems - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne--Vol VI • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as she coiled up under the shawl, "she's ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

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