Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An apparatus, connected with a cotton-carding machine, for receiving the sliver and disposing of it in the form of coils, so that it may not become entangled.

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  • noun A person who, or device which coils

Etymologies

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coil +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Twenty-two years now over, sloughed away like the skin of a Bastrikian coiler, dead and unwanted.

    The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse Bob Ingersoll 2004

  • Twenty-two years now over, sloughed away like the skin of a Bastrikian coiler, dead and unwanted.

    The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse Bob Ingersoll 2004

  • Twenty-two years now over, sloughed away like the skin of a Bastrikian coiler, dead and unwanted.

    The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse Bob Ingersoll 2004

  • Twenty-two years now over, sloughed away like the skin of a Bastrikian coiler, dead and unwanted.

    The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse Bob Ingersoll 2004

  • Twenty-two years now over, sloughed away like the skin of a Bastrikian coiler, dead and unwanted.

    The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse Bob Ingersoll 2004

  • Twenty-two years now over, sloughed away like the skin of a Bastrikian coiler, dead and unwanted.

    The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse Bob Ingersoll 2004

  • Smother the creature with kindness again, show we are a point in the scale above that old coiler snake -- which broke no bones, bit not so very deep; -- she will be, she ought to be, the woman she was.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • Smother the creature with kindness again, show we are a point in the scale above that old coiler snake -- which broke no bones, bit not so very deep; -- she will be, she ought to be, the woman she was.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Smother the creature with kindness again, show we are a point in the scale above that old coiler snake -- which broke no bones, bit not so very deep; -- she will be, she ought to be, the woman she was.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • A new coiler will replace the existing No. 3 coiler and the coil-transport system will be modified.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2010

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