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▪ I. coiled, ppl. a.1|kɔɪld|
[f. coil n.3 and v.3 + -ed.]
1. Disposed in a coil.
1628Digby Voy. Medit. (1868) 82 Coyled hawsers, a bight of a cable. 1661Boyle Spring of Air (1682) 92 These small coyled particles of the Air. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 456 Leaves egg-shaped, slightly woolly, coiled. 1805Wordsw. Prelude xiv. (1861) 286 A hedgehog..His coiled-up prey. 1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 114/1 The cyst..contains a minute coiled-up worm.
2. a. Of or pertaining to a method of basket-making based on a spirally coiled foundation.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl. s.v. basketry, Coiled basketry. 1923Kroeber Anthropol. xiii. 384 Of other elements specific to the Patagonian region, there might be mentioned coiled basketry. 1933C. Crampton Canework (ed. 6) i. 8 The oldest basket-work that has come down to us is the coiled, or as we term it, Indian work. Ibid., An Indian woman making a coiled basket. 1936Discovery June 171/1 Other cultural features of the Hamites are round shields..and coiled basketry.
b. coiled ware, pottery constructed from rolls or coils of clay. Cf. coiling vbl. n.1 d.
1931Discovery Jan. 3/2 Their contributions to the craft included coiled ware sometimes decorated with thumbnail incisions.
c. coiled coil, in a lamp: a doubly spiralled filament; freq. (with hyphen) attrib.; also transf.
1935Economist 29 June 1509/2 The coming of the coiled-coil lamp constituted further progress in the efficiency of lamps. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 174/2 Coiled-coil filament, a spiral filament for an electric lamp which is coiled into a further helix in order to reduce radiation losses and enable it to be run at a higher temperature. 1951G. H. Sewell Amat. Film-Making (ed. 2) iii. 38 A special form of projection lamp with concentrated coiled-coil filaments. 1962Times 13 Apr. 19/6 X-ray and analogous evidence..has been lately reported to be consistent with a coiled-coil type of structure.
▪ II. coiled, ppl. a.2
See coil v.2 |