Read full poem →And I shall feel it as a serpent of fire,
Coiling and twisting in my belly.
His snortings will rise to my head,
Dictionary Entry
To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
In a Sentence
“A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. coilingaround coiling
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Poetry examples for “coiling”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Thus, the bright snake coiling
[']Neath the forest tree
Read full poem →How white, had the day shone on them, they were,
Heaving and coiling. So by the roar and hiss
And by the mighty motion of the abyss