Definition of Recoilless

1. Adjective. Of or being a weapon that is designed to minimize recoil.

Partainyms: Recoil

Definition of Recoilless

1. Adjective. Lacking recoil. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recoilless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recoilless

recognizor
recognizors
recohere
recohered
recoherence
recoheres
recohering
recoil
recoil atom
recoil wave
recoiled
recoiler
recoilers
recoiling
recoilingly
recoilless (current term)
recoilless rifle
recoilless rifles
recoilment
recoilments
recoils
recoin
recoinage
recoinages
recoined
recoining
recoinings
recoins
recollapse
recollapsed

Literary usage of Recoilless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Howard's Hill and Other True Stories: Small Unit Marine Action in Vietnam by DIANE Publishing Company (1990)
"The battalion command center was hit hardest by both mortars and recoilless rifles. Two more men died there and several others were wounded. ..."

2. Seven Firefights in Vietnam by John A. Cash (1985)
"A recoilless rifle round struck the engine compartment and CIS began to burn. Although the driver himself was now wounded, he continued to move forward, ..."

3. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"Somebody else is carrying linked belts of .50 caliber ammunition. Another guy with a 90 [90-mm recoilless rifle] and another ..."

4. Military Geography for Professionals and the Public by John M. Collins (2000)
"30 recoilless and Wire-Guided Weapons. Urban combat inhibits lighter crew-served ... Backblast makes it dangerous to emplace recoilless weapons in small, ..."

5. Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea by William T. Bowers, William M. Hammond, George L. MacGarrigle (1997)
"Pfc. Robert J. Jones from Company D was helping his section dig a 75-mm. recoilless rifle into Company As defensive line when the North Koreans struck. ..."

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