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Definition of Recoyling
1. recoyle [v] - See also: recoyle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recoyling
Literary usage of Recoyling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1860)
"... says :—' For the recoyling, there is no hurt, if they be streight stocked,
... or none could abide their recoyling; but being discharged from ..."
2. A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of by James Robinson Planché (1876)
"... which Sir Roger Williams prefers : " For the recoyling, there is no hurte, if
they be straight-stocked, after the Spanish manner ; were they stocked ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"... recoyling, and putting himself out of distance, the prince pulled off his
vizard, and throwing it away, shew his face eo fully, that the noble-hearted ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The beds that they lodge them in a nights, is to set them by the heeles, their
bodies recoyling on the cold ground, in a paire of stockes for feare of ..."
5. The Spanish Dependencies in South America: An Introduction to the History of by Bernard Moses (1914)
"The beds that they lodge them in a nights, is to set them by the heeles, their
bodies recoyling on the cold ground) ..."
6. The Spanish Dependencies in South America: An Introduction to the History of by Bernard Moses (1914)
"The beds that they lodge them in a nights, is to set them by the heeles, their
bodies recoyling on the cold ground, ..."
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