What does recule mean?
Recule means (obsolete) To recoil or retreat; to draw back..
Recule
/ɹɪˈkjuːl/ · verb
Meaning
(obsolete) To recoil or retreat; to draw back..
Example Sentences
The Flemmynges began to be abasshed and to be discomfyted, and began to recule backe, and to fall one upon another.
Then being in Auguste, he came and campid his hole hooste in an ylande in the water of Barrowe, and dayly wolde come into the bordures of thErle of Ossories cuntrey, and sawe moche people dayly in ordre of battaile, and then would recule to their campe.
And forced them, however strong and stout They were, as well approv'd in many a doubt, Backe to recule
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Word Forms
- recules
- reculing
- reculed
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The Flemmynges began to be abasshed and to be discomfyted, and began to recule backe, and to fall one upon another.
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