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