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Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil..

Kick :: Kick (n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged..

Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.

Recoilingly :: Recoilingly (adv.) In the manner of a recoil.

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged..

Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc..

Recoiled :: Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoi.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.

Recule :: Recule (v. i.) To recoil.

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

Rejolt :: Rejolt (n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.

Ugh :: Ugh (interj.) An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress..

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

Shrink :: Shrink (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

Recoiler :: Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils..

Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..

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