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▪ I. recoiling, vbl. n.|rɪˈkɔɪlɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. in various senses.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 2771 In þe reculynge þat þay made an hundred of hem wer sleyn. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. l. 72 On the see ther is no reculyng nor fleyng, ther is no remedy but to fight. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 18 b, They either put their peeces in hazard of breaking, or els themselues to bee ouerthrowne with the reculing of them. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 308 That recoyling, which Dauid prescribed to Ioab, could not bee with the death of Vriah only. a1715Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 50 The recoiling of cruel counsels on the authors of them never appeared more eminently. 1829R. Story Mem. Isabella Campbell xii. 474 Thoughts of death seemed to have lost all power for a season to excite the recoilings of nature. 1892Athenæum 26 Nov. 737/1 After sundry self-searchings and recoilings..she marries Dering. ▪ II. recoiling, ppl. a.|rɪˈkɔɪlɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That recoils. recoiling escapement, recoiling pallet (see recoil n. 5 c).
1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 100 The recoiling waues brought vs backe from the Shelfes. 1642Rogers Naaman 14 A rebelling and recoyling spirit against God. Ibid. 538 In shooting off his recoyling gun. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 150 The remaining Part of its recoiling Force.. will be quite swallowed up in that Depth of Water. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 516 The motion of the wheel is hobbling and unequal, by which this escapement has received the appellation of the recoiling 'scapement. 1842Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) VI. 769/1 It is sometimes called the recoiling scapement or the recoiling pallets. Ibid. 773/2 No rule can be given for the angle which the recoiling arch should make with the concentric one. 1911Ann. Rep. Progress of Chem. VII. 272 A coating of silver 20µµ in thickness stopped the recoil completely, while 10µµ allowed some 60 per cent of the recoiling atoms to pass through. 1950D. Halliday Introd. Nucl. Physics iii. 107 Allen tried to detect recoiling Li7 ions formed during the disintegration by K-capture of Be7. 1963Bowen & Gibbons Radioactivation Analysis vii. 109 The recoiling atom travels for a short distance before it gives up all its excess energy, and may undergo various chemical reactions in the process. Hence reˈcoilingly adv. (Webster 1847). |