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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals. Opposite of uncoiled.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of coil.
  • adjective In the form of coils; having coils.

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  • adjective curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)

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Examples

  • One of them Martin coiled and held before his lips, and blew on it.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • One of them Martin coiled and held before his lips, and blew on it.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

  • I see them swathed in coiled shadows and broad bands of light.

    A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

  • Watson and Crick found that certain evidence ex cluded the possibility that the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule are paranemically coiled, that is, are so coiled that they can simply slip into and out of each other.

    GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968

  • Kundalini, most often described as a coiled serpent existing within the body in conjunction with the chakras.

    UFO and Paranormal News 2009

  • Kundalini, most often described as a coiled serpent existing within the body in conjunction with the chakras.

    UFO and Paranormal News 2009

  • •Knees are bent at a subtle angle with your heels ever-so-slightly raised to assume a "coiled" position, ready to strike.

    How to win a fight (part III) 2006

  • The static, "coiled" shapes appear to writhe on-screen.

    Boing Boing: September 7, 2003 - September 13, 2003 Archives 2003

  • She did not so much move toward him as strike, attacking him with the kind of coiled, primal sexual energy normally held in restraint beneath her noble poise.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • She got off the sofa, went over to the fish tank, peering in with a kind of coiled intensity as if she longed to shrink in size and jump into the salt water, becoming one with the crowd idling there.

    The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

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