COILED

coiled

(adjective) curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals); “a coiled snake ready to strike”; “the rope lay coiled on the deck”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

coiled

simple past tense and past participle of coil

Adjective

coiled (comparative more coiled, superlative most coiled)

In the form of coils; having coils.

Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike.

Synonyms

• looped

Anagrams

• cleido-, coldie, docile

Source: Wiktionary

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COIL

Coil (koil), v.t. [imp. & p. p. Coiled (koild); p. pr. & vb. n. Coiling.] Etym: [OF. coillir, F. cueillir, to collect, gather together, L. coligere; col- + legere to gather. See Legend, and cf. Cull, v. t., Collect.]

1. To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

2. To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils. [Obs. or R.] T. Edwards.

Coil, v. i.

Definition: To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around. You can see his flery serpents . . . Coiting, playing in the water. Longfellow.

Coil, n.

1. A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound. The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from trec to tree. W. Irving.

2. Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.

3. A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus. Induction coil. (Elec.) See under Induction.

– Ruhmkorff's coil (Elec.), an induction coil, sometimes so called from Ruhmkorff (, a prominent manufacturer of the apparatus.

Coil, n. Etym: [Of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. goil fume, rage.]

Definition: A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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