Recurved

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of recurve form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    curved backward or inward wordnet

Example

More examples

"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."

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