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Meanings of coiled in English

Spanish
enroscado

Curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)

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        Usage of coiled in English
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        Elsie found the painter of the life-boat coiled in its proper place.
        The Captain of the Kansas
        2
        The Russian segment provides fracturing and coiled tubing services in Western Siberia.
        Reuters
        3
        Results: All three patients were successfully stent coiled with the LVIS device.
        Pubmed
        4
        There lay the dreaded serpent, coiled in a ring round the wall.
        Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandin...
        5
        I could practically feel his coiled energy, the burning below his surface.
        Murder most frothy
        6
        Now the wires were neatly coiled on the ground beside the basket.
        Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
        7
        The girl was held within by the coiled one on the stone.
        Son of Power
        8
        It hung over the green heads, it coiled about the gray trunks.
        The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
        9
        No obvious sign of weaponry, no piano wire coiled on the table.
        Goodbye dolly
        10
        The rope coiled and tied beside the saddle fork was of rawhide.
        The Phantom Herd
        11
        Snake coiled Sand around her right arm and took the papers left-handed.
        Dreamsnake
        12
        The second aneurysm in each canine was coiled without an adjunctive device.
        Pubmed
        13
        Civilisation slipped away as the track coiled its way into the unknown.
        BBC
        14
        I was the coiled-up snake waiting for the perfect millisecond to attack.
        A taste of magic
        15
        I could feel Suzie poising for action, tense as a coiled spring.
        Agents of light and darkness
        16
        He found the mate coiled in the scupper, very wet and still.
        The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
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