coiling

The pattern or motion of something that coils.

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!"

The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling.