Crossword clues for recurve
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recurve \Re*curve"\ (r?*k?rv"), v. t. To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To curve again, to rebend. 2 To curve back on itself.
WordNet
v. curve or bend (something) back or down
Wikipedia
Recurve may refer to:
- Recurve (landform), the hook at the tip of a coastal spit
- Recurve bow, a type of bow used in archery
Usage examples of "recurve".
It must be free of any appendages abutting upon the outside of the recurve at a right angle.
For example, a loop with an appendage abutting upon its recurve between the shoulders and at right angles, as in illustration 56, will appear sometimes as in illustration 57 with the recurve totally destroyed.
When figure 188 is examined, it will be noticed that the recurve is spoiled by the appendage abutting upon it between the shoulders at a right angle, so it must also be classified with the tented arches.
An appendage abutting upon a loop at right angles between the shoulders is considered to spoil the loop, while an appendage which flows off smoothly is considered to leave the recurve intact.
The recurve was built, made of horn and sinew glued onto a wood frame.
My friend, who gave me the fletching thread, said that the longbow is not as accurate as the recurve bows he and his men carry.
She was carrying her recurve bow and wearing leggings of soft leather, with a hooded green shirt under a fringed doeskin jerkin.
Each man possessed a recurve bow with fifty shafts, a heavy cavalry sabre, and a short sword in a scabbard fitted to the left shoulder.
These tented arches have two of the loop characteristics, recurve and delta, but lack the third, the ridge count.
This pattern has a recurve and a separate delta, but it still lacks the ridge count necessary to make it a loop.
The ridge count referred to as such in connection with the tented arches possessing ending ridges and no recurve is obtained by imagining that the ending ridges are joined by a recurve only for the purpose of locating the core and obtaining a ridge count.
These patterns are tented arches because they possess two of the characteristics of a loop, a delta and a recurve, but lack the third, a ridge count across a looping ridge.
The test is to trace the looping ridge toward the appendage, and if, when it is reached, the tracing may be continued as readily upon the appendage as upon the looping ridge, with no sudden, sharp change of direction, the recurve is sufficient.
In figure 189, the only possible delta must be placed upon the looping ridge, thus preventing a ridge count although delta and recurve are present.
An appendage connected at that point is considered to spoil the recurve on that side.