reculing

Verb

recule (third-person singular simple present recules, present participle reculing, simple past and past participle reculed)

1. (obsolete) To recoil or retreat; to draw back.
   • The Flemmynges began to be abasshed and to be discomfyted, and began to recule backe, and to fall one upon another.1525, Jean Froissart, translated by Sir John Bourchier, The Chronicle of Froissart - Volume 3, page 374