[f. SPIRAL sb.]
1. intr. To wind or move in a spiral manner; to form spiral curves.
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge, xx. We began to ascend the narrow corkscrew path that spiralled through the rocky grass-piece.
1851. H. Melville, Moby-Dick, lxxxvii. 432–3. The slackened curling line buoyantly rising and spiralling towards the air.
1904. Eliz. Robins, Magnetic North, vii. 124. It curled and spiralled, and described the kind of involved and long-looped flourishes which the grave and reverend of a hundred years ago wrote jauntily underneath the most sober names.
2. trans. To twist or coil spirally.
1867. F. Francis, Angling, vi. (1880), 226. Spiral it round to lash it on to the hook.
