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COIL, v.t. To gather, as a line or cord into a circular form; to wind into a ring, as a serpent, or a rope.

COIL, n.

1. A rope gathered into a ring; on shipboard, a single turn or winding is called a fake, and a range of fakes is called a tier.

2. A noise, tumult, bustle.
1913 Definition
Coil (coil)
v. t.(koil)
Coil
[imp. *** p. p. Coiled (koild)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Coiling.] [OF. coillir, F. cueillir, to collect, gather together, L. coligere] col- + legere to gather. See
  1. To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
  2. To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
    [Obs. or R.] T. Edwards.
  3. To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.

    You can see his flery serpents . . .
    Coiting, playing in the water.
    Longfellow.

  4. A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.

    The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from trec to tree.
    W. Irving.

  5. Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
  6. A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.

    Induction coil. (Elec.) See under Induction. -- Ruhmkorff's coil (Elec.), an induction coil, sometimes so called from Ruhmkorff ((?)), a prominent manufacturer of the apparatus.

  7. A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.
    [Obs.] Shak.

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