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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..

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

Unwreathe :: Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

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

Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Coil :: Coil (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils..

Unlink :: Unlink (v. t.) To separate or undo, as links; to uncoil; to unfasten..

Cochlea :: Cochlea (n.) An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.

Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

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 draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

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

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..

Querl :: Querl (n.) A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse..

Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Tortile :: Tortile (a.) Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

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..

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

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