Coil

1. n. A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.
2. v. t. To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
3. v. t. To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
4. v. i. To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; — often with about or around.
5. n. A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
6. n. Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
7. n. A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.