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Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

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

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

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

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

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.

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

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

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

Rebut :: Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.

Recoiling :: Recoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoi.

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..

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

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

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

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.

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

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

Hairspring :: Hairspring (n.) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

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

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