Coil

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.

II. Coil ·noun Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.

III. Coil ·vt To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.

IV. Coil ·noun A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.

V. Coil ·noun A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.

VI. Coil ·vt To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

VII. Coil ·vi To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to Wind;

— often with about or around.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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