recurved

English

Verb

recurved

1. simple past and past participle of recurve

Adjective

recurved (comparative more recurved, superlative most recurved)

1. Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.
   • 1827, William Hone, The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastime, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times..., page 355:

     We will not, however, travel on his "elephants' snouts in coat armour," beyond a field or, with "the proboscide of an elephant, erected, flexed and recurved gules, issuing out of a pierced place; towards the basis thereof, a rose-sprig vertant et revertant, about the trunk to the middle thereof proper.