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Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.

Counterbuff :: Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

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

Shock :: Shock (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates..

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

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

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

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

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..

Resilient :: Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

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

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

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.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.

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

Resile :: Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

Irresilient :: Irresilient (a.) Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.

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

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..

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

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