recoiler

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re·coil

(rĭ-koil′)

intr.v. re·coiled, re·coil·ing, re·coils

1. To spring back, as upon firing.

2. To shrink back, as in fear or repugnance.

3. To fall back; return: "Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent" (Arthur Conan Doyle).

n. (also rē′koil′)

1. The backward action of a firearm upon firing.

2. The act or state of recoiling; reaction.

[Middle English recoilen, from Old French reculer : re-, re- + cul, buttocks (from Latin cūlus; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots).]

re·coil′er n.

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