Meaning

• To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

  "A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart."

• To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.

  "The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier."

• To wind cylindrically or spirally.

  "The snake coiled itself before springing."

• To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.

Meaning

• In the form of coils; having coils.

  "a coiled serpent"

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