Definition of coil

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Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound..

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Baculite :: Baculite (n.) A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite..
Voluminous :: Voluminous (a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions..
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current..
Irresilient :: Irresilient (a.) Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To coil together.
Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc..
Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..
Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..
Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.
Ran :: Ran (n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
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..
Inductorium :: Inductorium (n.) An induction coil.
Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Multispiral :: Multispiral (a.) Having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.
Upcoil :: Upcoil (v. t. & i.) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil..
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..
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..
Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
Snakestone :: Snakestone (n.) An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake..
Recoiling :: Recoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoi.
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