"coiling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1854, Herman Melville, The Encantadas",
          "text": "Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, \"Senor, I buried him;\" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, \"I buried him, my life, my soul!\"",
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        "The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling."
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