coincer

Ils se coinçaient dans ma montre.
It kept getting caught on my watch.
Or, comme les baleines franches nagent avec la gueule grande ouverte lorsqu’elles s’alimentent, les cordes qui flottent entre deux eaux se coinçaient parfois dans leur gueule et dans leurs fanons.
Since right whales feed by swimming with their mouths wide open, they sometimes caught the loops of rope in their mouths, where they twisted and tangled in their baleen.
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