Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wrap or hold captive in, or as in, a coil.
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Examples
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Others threaten to encoil you until youre constricted to death.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Can he take holiday, he whom toil seems to encoil like a shirt of
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 Various
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