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

Irresilient :: Irresilient (a.) Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

Bought :: Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent..

Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.

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

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged..

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

Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

Ruhmkorff''s Coil :: Ruhmkorff's coil () See Induction coil, under Induction..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Recule :: Recule (v. i.) To recoil.

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..

Coiling :: Coiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coi.

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