coiled

About 1.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of coil
2. adjective In the form of coils; having coils.

   a coiled serpent

3. adjective Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike.

Similar words

whorled turbinate looped voluted convoluted spiraling helical twisted volute convolute

Often followed by

up in and around spring round on into about