coiled

Meanings

Verb

• to wind or move in a spiral course
• make without a potter's wheel
• wind around something in coils or loops
• simple past and past participle of coil

Adjective

• curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)
  • "a coiled snake ready to strike"
  • "the rope lay coiled on the deck"

Adj

• In the form of coils; having coils.
• Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike.

Synonyms

coil, curl, gyrate, hand-build, handbuild, loop, looped, spiral

Antonyms

uncoil, uncoiled