Definition of "uncoiling" []

• Present participle of uncoil. (verb)

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• "That coiling is perhaps prepared for some kind of uncoiling; and I will try if I can't learn something about it from some other book -- noticing, as I pause to think where to look, the advantage of our English tongue in its pithy Saxon word, 'pith,' separating all our ideas of vegetable structure clearly from animal; while the poor Latin and"
• "Then he launched himself forward, his body uncoiling as though released from great pressure."
• "He was shouting instruction to the other firemen as they scrambled from the vehicle, serpentine hoses uncoiling over the road like spilled guts from some reddened beast."