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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 187 The back of the trough being curved, permits the cloth to turn upwards before each successive kick.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 337 Our noble craft..had a cataclysmic kick in her.

1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being The twin-screws gave us more kick than was pleasant.

1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. 233/1 Kick. 1. In general, a recoil. 2. Any impulsive movement imparted in telegraphy to delicate instrument parts by a discharge from the line.

1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. 233/1 Kick of coil, a discharge taking place from an electromagnet coil.

1928 A. E. Stone Text Bk. Telegr. xiii. 191 With the non-polarised relays a different method has had to be adopted, in order to eliminate the effects of what is known as the B kick. This term is applied to the break in the continuity of signals received on the non-polarised relays, due to the momentary demagnetisation of their cores when the current in the line is reversed.

1928 A. E. Stone Text Bk. Telegr. xiii. 194 The ‘kick’ observed on the galvanometer.

1930 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 129 214 An ambiguity arises in determining the residual range of an α-particle from the magnitude of the ‘kick’ recorded by the counter.

1930 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 129 216 The third record..shows the kicks smaller and more uniform in size.

1957 Economist 7 Sept. 767/2 (advt.) But why ‘kick sorter’? Because it sorts out electrical ‘kicks’ or impulses according to their amplitude—more than 16,000 of them in each of 100 channels and at speeds up to 1,250 pulses per second.

1959 J. W. Freebody Telegr. vii. 200/2 Another difficulty found in the operation of diplex and quadruplex circuits was known as the B-kick which occurred when the B-side relay was operated by a marking current and the current was then reversed by the operation of the A-side key.