COILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coiling mean? 

• COILING (adjective)
  The adjective COILING has 1 sense:

1. in the shape of a coil

  Familiarity information: COILING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COILING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the shape of a coil

Synonyms:

coiling; helical; spiral; spiraling; turbinate; volute; voluted; whorled

Similar:

coiled (curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals))

 Context examples 

She appeared quite heart-broken over the discovery, but recovered her spirits by coiling down tackles and halyards and all stray ropes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Eleven minutes and 33 seconds later, Juno had covered another 24,713 miles (39,771 kilometers), and was passing directly above the coiling, crimson cloud tops of the Great Red Spot.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

The air was thick with flying wreckage, detached ropes and stays were hissing and coiling like snakes, and down through it all crashed the gaff of the foresail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Without pausing for breath, though my heart was beating like a trip-hammer from my exertions, I sprang to the topsails, and before the wind had become too strong we had them fairly set and were coiling down.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I cut no more than was necessary, and what with passing the long ropes under and around the booms and masts, of unreeving the halyards and sheets, of coiling down in the boat and uncoiling in order to pass through another knot in the bight, I was soon wet to the skin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)