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

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

Recoilment :: Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Reculement :: Reculement (n.) Recoil.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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.

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

Shocking :: Shocking (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting..

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