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

Coiled :: Coiled (imp. & p. p.) of Coi.

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..

Upcoil :: Upcoil (v. t. & i.) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil..

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..

Curl :: Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body..

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..

Snakestone :: Snakestone (n.) An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake..

Coil :: Coil (n.) A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion..

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..

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

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

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..

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

Shocking :: Shocking (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting..

Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..

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

Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball..

Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.

Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..

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