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▪ I. coiling, vbl. n.1|ˈkɔɪlɪŋ|
[f. coil v.3 + -ing1.]
a. Winding in a coil or coils.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Coiling, implies a sort of serpentine winding of a cable or other rope, that it may occupy a small space in the ship. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 867 The coiling of tendrils attached to supports.
b. The winding of a bar into a coil for a gun; cf. coil n.3 5. Also attrib.
1862Illust. Lond. News XL. 224/1 The Armstrong gun, by the coiling process, is rendered as strong as it is possible for wrought iron to make it. 1870Daily News 1 Sept. 3 The company..witnessed the coiling of a tube for a 9-pounder gun.
c. attrib. in Cotton-spinning (cf. coiler1).
1850Tatham & Cheetham Brit. Pat. 13,313 2 Our improvements..relate..to the drawing frame, such improvements consisting, firstly, in the combination of coiling apparatus..with the principle of traversing cans. Ibid. 14 The arrangement of parts for winding on the yarn as spun is substantially the same as that of our coiling machinery..which apparatus is now well known. 1873Leigh Sci. Mod. Cotton Spinning (ed. 2) 168 This very ingenious contrivance is the celebrated ‘coiling motion’, patented about thirty years ago by Messrs. Tatham and Cheetham.
d. Pottery. The act or process of constructing coiled ware. Also attrib.
1900tr. Deniker's Races of Man 154 A method of proceeding which may be called coiling in clay. 1936Burlington Mag. Nov. 241/2 The nature of the lead silica glaze..and the technique of ‘coiling’. 1957Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 374/2 In the coiling technique, the raw material is rolled out into a slender rope which is coiled upon itself.
▪ II. coiling, vbl. n.2
See coil v.1
▪ III. coiling, ppl. a.
[f. coil v.3]
That coils.
1718J. Fox Wanderer 131 Drawing out a Scorpion from the coiling Knot. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. clx, The coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp. |