coil
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Is coil a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.Synonyms: inductor
2. (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.Examples: "What trifling coil do we mortals keep; Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.Examples: "a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare"obsoleterare
noun (English)
1. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.Examples: "a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]"; "If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?"; "this great Savage desired also to see him. A great coyle there was to set him forward."
noun (English)
1. (informal, slang) A wad of cash.informalslang
Definition source: Wiktionary