Definition of coil

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Coil (v. i.) To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.

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Recoiled :: Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoi.
Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To coil together.
Coil :: Coil (v. i.) To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.
Differential :: Differential (n.) One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other..
Coiled :: Coiled (imp. & p. p.) of Coi.
Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole..
Coil :: Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound..
Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..
Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc..
Strombus :: Strombuliform (a.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.
Coil :: Coil (n.) A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus..
Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil..
Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..
Querl :: Querl (v. t.) To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope..
Fake :: Fake (n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil..
Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine..
Aphlogistic :: Aphlogistic (a.) Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame..
Vernation :: Vernation (n.) The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation..
Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..
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