Naut. [ad. F. culer said of ship or wind ‘aller en arrière,’ f. cul hinder part. Cf. recoil = reculer.] To turn; cf. weather-coil, -coiling.
1804. A. Duncan, Mariner’s Chron., I. 228. On the 29th, in a severe squall, with a cross-quarter sea, the ship coiling to windward, with her upper deck parts in the water.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Weather-coiling, a ship resuming her course after being taken aback; rounding off by a stern-board, and coming up to it again.
