verb
- To wind or move in a spiral course.
- usage: "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
- Make without a potter's wheel.
- usage: "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"
- synonyms: handbuild, hand-build, coil
- Wind around something in coils or loops.
adjective
- Curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals. )
- usage: "a coiled snake ready to strike"; "the rope lay coiled on the deck"
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