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

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

Uncoil :: Uncoil (v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope..

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

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

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

Unlink :: Unlink (v. t.) To separate or undo, as links; to uncoil; to unfasten..

Intervolve :: Intervolve (v. t.) To involve one within another; to twist or coil together.

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current..

Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..

Inductorium :: Inductorium (n.) An induction coil.

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

Unwreathe :: Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed..

Strombus :: Strombuliform (a.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.

Multispiral :: Multispiral (a.) Having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.

Accoil :: Accoil (v. t.) To gather together; to collect.

Caduceus :: Caduceus (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top..

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

Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole..

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.

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