recule — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To recoil or retreat; to draw back.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   The Flemmynges began to be abasshed and to be discomfyted, and began to recule backe, and to fall one upon another.

   More examples (1)

   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