coil

It is a blessing that a rattlesnake has to coil before it can spring.

Into the cockpit, splashing, something dropped—a coil of rope.

Here he sat down on a coil of rope, and thought over the situation.

“Here,” he said, leading the way into the room where the coil stood.

There were only a Ruhmkorff coil and Crookes (vacuum) tube and the man himself.

I'll explain what I have in mind while we dig up this coil of hose.

No one was visible on deck, so Donald sat down on a coil of rope to wait.

King Coilus, or Coil, seems to have reigned soon after Arthur's time.

I told him as briefly as possible while he continued to coil the rope.

But he noticed that the guide had a coil of rope, and that Urquhart carried a shovel.