To pick; choose; select.To strain through a cloth.To gather into a narrow compass.To gather into rings one above another; twist or wind spirally: as, to coil a rope; a serpent coils itself to strike.To entangle as or as if by coiling about.To form rings, spirals, or convolutions; wind.n. A ring or series of rings or spirals into which a pliant body, as a rope, is wound; hence, such a form in a body which is not pliant, as a steel car-spring.n. Specifically An electrical conductor, as a copper wire, when wound up in a spiral or other form: as, an induction-coil; a resistance-coil.n. A group or nest of pipes, variously arranged, used as a radiator in a steam-heating apparatus.n. Stir; disturbance; tumult; bustle; turmoil; trouble.n. [In the following quotation the meaning is uncertain; it is explained as either ‘turmoil, bustle, trouble’ (which is the sense employed in all other cases where Shakspere has used the word), or ‘that which entwines or wraps around,’ that is, the body.n. A hencoop. Also called hen-coil.n. A cock, as of hay; a haycock.n. A cylindrical hoop or tube formed by coiling a wrought-iron bar and then welding to form a solid piece: formerly used in building up Armstrong guns.