Definition of "coiled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of coil. (verb)
• In the form of coils; having coils. (adjective)

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• "One of them Martin coiled and held before his lips, and blew on it."
• "I see them swathed in coiled shadows and broad bands of light."
• "Watson and Crick found that certain evidence ex cluded the possibility that the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule are paranemically coiled, that is, are so coiled that they can simply slip into and out of each other."