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Volume :: Volume (n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.

Recoiled :: Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoi.

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..

Platinoid :: Platinoid (n.) An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.

Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To gather together; to collect.

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

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..

Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..

Shagbark :: Shagbark (n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod..

Querl :: Querl (v. t.) To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope..

Ran :: Ran (n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

Strombus :: Strombuliform (a.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil..

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..

Caduceus :: Caduceus (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top..

Inductorium :: Inductorium (n.) An induction coil.

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..

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..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.

Gyrate :: Gyrate (a.) Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.

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