a hen-coil, a hen-pen. N. Coil also signifies in the North, a great stir, and a lump on the head by a blow.
·noun A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion. II. Coil ·noun Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplex...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A certain quantity of rope laid up in ring fashion. The manner in which all ropes are disposed of on...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to ...
·add. ·- A choking coil. ...
·- ·see Induction coil, under <<Induction>>. ...
·add. ·- A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus. II...
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Tesla transformer. ...
When a ship has her head brought about, so as to lie that way which her stern did before, as by the ...
To lay it in fakes and tiers one over the other. ♦ To lay a cable. (See laying.) ♦ To pay cheap ...