| verb | to wind or move in a spiral course “the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action” |
| verb | make without a potter's wheel “This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels” |
| verb | wind around something in coils or loops |
| adjective | curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) “a coiled snake ready to strike” |
| gyration | noun | the act of rotating in a circle or spiral |
| spiral | noun | a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops |
| coil | noun | a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) |
| loop | noun | anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself) |
| curl | noun | a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) |