Definition of coil

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Coil (v. t.) To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing..

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Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc..
Intervolution :: Intervolution (n.) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake..
Cop :: Cop (n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc..
Orlop :: Orlop (n.) The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled..
Bought :: Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent..
Bight :: Bight (v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop..
Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
Coil :: Coil (n.) A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus..
Unwreathe :: Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed..
Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.
Tendril :: Tendril (a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally..
Curl :: Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body..
Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.
Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
Inductorium :: Inductorium (n.) An induction coil.
Coilon :: Coilon (n.) A testicle.
Quoil :: Quoil (n.) See Coil.
Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..
Shagbark :: Shagbark (n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod..
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