coil
/kɔɪl/ noun C1- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral. · the sinuous coils of a snake
- Any intrauterine device for contraception (originally coil-shaped).
- A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- A cylinder of clay.
- Entanglement; perplexity.
Plural coils
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, “—Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: _he_ taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.”
The ticker began to reel out jerkily its fitful coils of tape, the desk telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing.
Her glossy dark-brown hair showed its coils beneath a cheap hat of black straw whose only ornament was a velvet ribbon and bow.
Kaa was not a poison snake--in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards--but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.
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