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Definition
to give in return — such as invitations, gifts, actions, or feelings
- Nor is this any very easy matter; for in his rear is the immense projecting steering oar hitting him now and then in the small of his back, the after-oar reciprocating by rapping his knees in front.Chapters 52-54 -- The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (21% in)
- ...or whether the place where he stood was so treacherous and oozy; or whether the Evil One himself would have it to fall out so, without stating his particular reasons; how it was exactly, there is no telling now; but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up—my God! poor Tashtego—like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of sight!Chapters 76-78 -- The Battering-Ram; The Great Heidelburgh Tun; Cistern and Buckets (64% in)
There are no more uses of "reciprocate" in Moby Dick.
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