Coiling

Verb

1. Present participle of coil

Full definition of coiling

Noun

1. The pattern or motion of something that coils.
• Herman Melville, The EncantadasHolding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"