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Recurve

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To curve (something) backward or downward or become curved backward or downward.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To curve again, to rebend.

v. To curve back on itself.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To curve back; turn backward. Also recurvate.

To be recurved.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. curve or bend (something) back or down

Word Usage

"In connection with the proper classification to be assigned to those borderline loop-tented arch cases where an appendage or spike is thrusting out from the recurve, it is necessary to remember that _an appendage or a spike abutting upon a recurve at right angles in the space between the shoulders of a loop on the outside is considered to spoil the recurve_."

Verb Form

recurved recurves recurving

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

curve crook

Form

recurve bow

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