Verb (used without object) : The snake coiled, ready to strike. ,The river coiled through the valley.    From Dictionary.com. 

Police said it appeared the thieves knew they wanted the copper coiling, which is very valuable as scrap metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just News - Local News] Reference

Even the striking of a match starts a little worm coiling, which is too small to complete a circle but is eternally watchful.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Passage To India]

Furthermore, because it is in motion, it teaches the muscles to sequence their movement so as to create a kind of coiling energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

The stock ran all the way up to 38.35, and then backed and filled Monday in a kind of coiling action.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

He staggered, and his coiling tentacles relaxed slightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zehru of Xollar] Reference

But she was still beset with clouds and coiling questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juanita] Reference

Once more he took it aboard and began coiling in the warp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

She came to the doorway of her room, coiling a loop of hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

He was soon unhooking hake and coiling the trawl into its tub.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Nell was coiling the sheet in a methodical fashion, and thinking of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

Ted was coiling his rope in his hand ready for a cast, and Stella and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference

And quickly coiling round the king's neck and uttering a tremendous roar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

To attain these proofs he had to step over the coiling, writhing bodies of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference

"You screamed at that?" demanded Redburn, pointing to the coiling serpent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills] Reference

"I guess I'll buy a few snakes, they look so funny coiling out," Tom said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference

She leaned in too close, coiling her fingers like snakes and licking her lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falcon Street] Reference

Another element was the coiling of this strip of steel preliminary to tempering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885] Reference

"Wait and you'll see," returned the young farmer, hastily coiling the rope again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

Her graying hair hangs in a braid down her back, coiling and letting out snakelike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juicy | In the Umbra] Reference

"Hold on tight," Orme cautioned the girl, and, coiling his lasso, he went to the bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference

Upon a coiling path, I met a dark-skinned woman carrying a basket of slick, silvery fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thrill of Sky Diving] Reference

Woofer had ridden out into the open and was coiling his rope in his hand ready for a cast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference

His path ended at a wide ladder, coiling in slow curves into gloom below and shadows above.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

He rode Sock, his pinto pony, off a little way, coiling his rope in readiness as he did so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

These are large, strong snakes that squeeze and crush their prey by coiling themselves around it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

With a confident smile, Woofer drew in his rope again, coiling it, and making ready for another cast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference

He climbed up and loosened the net, coiling its folds into one hand, taking the good spear in his other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Hunter] Reference

Juli had a fidgety little way of coiling the links of the chain around her wrists and it made me nervous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door Through Space] Reference

It was not pleasant to move in streets where such human rattlesnakes and cobras were coiling and lying in wait.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

Alecto's serpents coiling and twisting through it, makes one of the most awful passages in all English poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

He held the black hashish cake over the grinder, using his dagger to shave small, coiling peels into the ground kaviyeh beans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference