What is "spiralled"

vb. (en-past of: spiral)

1. adj. in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate]

2. [also: spiralling, spiralled]

1. n. a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at ever-greater distances from it

2. a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle [syn: helix]

3. ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center [syn: volute]

4. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, volute, whorl, helix]

5. flying downward in a helical path with a large radius

6. [also: spiralling, spiralled]

1. v. 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" [syn: gyrate, coil]

2. form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain"

3. move in a spiral or zigzag course [syn: corkscrew]

4. [also: spiralling, spiralled]

See spiral