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  2. Recoil - Wikipedia

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    An early naval cannon, which is allowed to roll backwards slightly when fired, and therefore must be tethered with strong ropes. Recoil (often called knockback, kickback or simply kick) is the rearward thrust generated when a gun is being discharged.

  3. Recoil operation - Wikipedia

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    Key for recoil operation diagrams. Gun fires to the right. Block diagram of long recoil operation cycle. Long recoil operation is found primarily in shotguns, particularly ones based on John Browning's Auto-5 action.

  4. M67 recoilless rifle - Wikipedia

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    The M67 recoilless rifle is a 90 mm (3.55 inch) anti-tank recoilless rifle made in the United States and later in South Korea.It could also be employed in an anti-personnel role with the use of the M590 antipersonnel round.

  5. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  6. Rope start - Wikipedia

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    Starting a Lazair II ultralight aircraft's JPX PUL 425 engine, equipped with a recoil starter. A rope start device housed in a Nose bullet of a Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet.. Rope start (also called ripcord [citation needed], pull start [citation needed], or rewind start [citation needed]) is a method of starting an internal combustion engine, usually on small machines, such as lawn mowers ...

  7. List of recoilless rifles - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of recoilless rifles intended to catalogue these lightweight infantry support weapons that allow the firing of a heavier projectile than would be practical with a recoiling artillery gun.

  8. After a devastating debate performance, Biden aides try to ...

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    The debate was always going to be a gamble for Joe Biden — but the bet may prove more costly than he imagined after he gave what was roundly panned as a bumbling and incoherent performance.

  9. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]