coiling Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb to wind or move in a spiral course
   coil; gyrate; spiral.
   
   • the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action
   • black smoke coiling up into the sky
   • the young people gyrated on the dance floor
2. verb make without a potter's wheel
   coil; handbuild; hand-build.
   
   • This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels
3. verb wind around something in coils or loops
   coil; curl; loop.
   
4. adjective satellite in the shape of a coil
   helical; spiraling; spiral; turbinate; voluted; whorled; volute.
   

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