recurve

Meanings

Noun

• A type of knife blade shape that involves several curves including a concave curve on a portion of the edge, resulting in a belly that is lower than the handle bottom.
• A recurve bow.
• A landform consisting of a hook at the tip of a coastal spit.

Verb

• To curve again, to rebend.
• To curve back on itself.
• To change direction.

Origin

• re- + curve