When lo! – the tale I shudder to pursue – / from Tenedos in silence, side by side, / two monstrous serpents, horrible to view, / with coils enormous leaning on the tide, / shoreward, with even stretch, the tranquil sea divide.

That rope has to be coiled.

In the kitchen a kettle was singing on the fire, and a large black cat lay coiled up in the basket.

Their breasts erect they rear amid the deep, / their blood-red crests above the surface shine, / their hinder parts along the waters sweep, / trailed in huge coils and many a tortuous twine.

Her hair hung in neat coils.

But lo! the serpents to Tritonia's seat / glide from their victim, till the shrine they gain, / and, coiled beside the goddess, at her feet, / behind her sheltering shield with gathered orbs retreat.

When a coil is moved near to a wire with current flowing in it current flows in the coil as well.

To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause.

Who put the mosquito coil here?" "That was me." "It's senseless to put it behind the curtain. The curtain will flutter with the wind, and if it catches the heat then it'll cause a fire."

When a coil is moved near a wire through which current is flowing, current is generated in the coil as well.