coiling

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Coiling around each other like flowers, teen-agers or snakes, Manhattan's superb improvisationists prove that they can make hilarious fun of anything from the P.T.A. to the old Tennessee Williams.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coiling around each other like flowers, teen-agers or snakes, these superb improvisationists prove that they can make hilarious fun of anything from the P.T.A. to the old Tennessee Williams.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coiling up and down tne heights and planes and depths of the amazing Bel Geddes stage, the legends of Jacob's loss of Rachel, Joseph's dispatch into Egypt.

From Time Magazine Archive

This would make the Coiling Dragon forgetful of Bing.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Coiling a rope in the direction from the right hand towards the left—the contrary of with the sun.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir