Overview of verb coil

The verb coil has 3 senses

• gyrate, spiral, coil -- (to wind or move in a spiral course; "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")


• handbuild, hand-build, coil -- (make without a potter's wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels")


• coil, loop, curl -- (wind around something in coils or loops)

Overview of adj coiling

The adj coiling has 1 sense

• coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate -- (in the shape of a coil)