[f. COIL v.3 + -ING1.] Winding in a coil or coils.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Coiling, implies a sort of serpentine winding of a cable or other rope, that it may occupy a small space in the ship.
1882. Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 867. The coiling of tendrils attached to supports.
b. The winding of a bar into a coil for a gun; cf. COIL sb.3 5. Also attrib.
1862. Illust. Lond. News, XL. 224/1. The Armstrong gun, by the coiling process, is rendered as strong as it is possible for wrought iron to make it.
1870. Daily News, 1 Sept., 3/4. The company … witnessed the coiling of a tube for a 9-pounder gun.
Coiling vbl. sb.2 See COIL v.1
