ppl. a.1 [f. COIL sb.3 and v.3 + -ED.] Disposed in a COIL.

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1623.  Digby, Voy. Medit. (1868), 82. Coyled hawsers, a bight of a cable.

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1661.  Boyle, Spring of Air (1682), 92. These small coyled particles of the Air.

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1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 456. Leaves egg-shaped, slightly woolly, coiled.

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1805.  Wordsw., Prelude, XIV. (1861), 286. A hedgehog … His coiled-up prey.

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1836–9.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., II. 114/1. The cyst … contains a minute coiled-up worm.

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  Coiled ppl. a.2 See COIL v.2

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