Wound, as a spring

Usage examples of coiled.

A little pipe coiled away behind the hutches and disappeared over the railings into the boiler below.

He coiled it gently, placing the two ends of the copper against the colander-helmet just above his temples, then pressing down hard until each piece of metal broke the surface tension of the other and began to spill across the divide.

He also brought out a large tangle of metal-sheathed piping, coiled around his hand.

Behind them, the squat pillar of coiled cable shrank slowly as it unwound.

Yagharek flattened himself against the wall in the shadow of the sculpture, his whip coiled and ready.

But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.

Scroll-wise coiled forwards beneath the body, and then rapidly sprung backwards, it is this which gives that singular darting, leaping motion to the monster when furiously swimming.

Starbuck to himself, as he coiled the new-hauled main-brace upon the rail.

Fiddle was only an upright pole, five feet tall, at the bottom of which was attached a coiled spring that rested on the bandstand flooring.

The barbarian touched the amulet about his neck as though it were a sleeping serpent coiled there.

Thin streams of gray smoke coiled along the pale flesh of her forearms.

One leg coiled around his waist in an effort to move out from beneath him.

A single strand of dark body hair was coiled like a watch-spring on the white sheet.

Carefully Shasa stripped a hundred feet of line off the big Fin Nor and coiled it on the deck.

It lay coiled upon what appeared to be a great bowl held high on the paws of four beasts.