Word Meanings - RECIPROCATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate. One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air. Dryden. Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine,

Additional info about word: RECIPROCATE

To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate. One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air. Dryden. Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circular path. -- Reciprocating motion , motion alternately backward and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECIPROCATE)

• Bandy
• Interchange
• exchange
• reciprocate
• cross
• pass

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