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Webster 1828 Edition

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Gathering or winding into a ring or circle.

coiling

coiling ‎(plural coilings)

The pattern or motion of something that coils.
- Herman Melville, The Encantadas
  Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"