Crossword-Solution: RECURVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Recurve | v. t. | To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “RECURVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kind of archery bow | 1 answer |
| RE-ENTER | 1 answer |
| curve or bend (something) back or down | 1 answer |
| bend backwards | 2 answers |
| Bend back. | 2 answers |
| Bend over backward | 5 answers |
| CURVE OR BEND BACK OR DOWN | 11 answers |
| BEND OR TURN BACKWARD | 11 answers |
| BEND ___ BACKWARD | 13 answers |
| arcuate | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RECURVE (5)
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 the core is located on a spike which touches the inside of the innermost recurving ridge, the recurve is included in the ridge count only when the delta is located below a line drawn at right angles to the spike.
These three loop characteristics are, to repeat: - _A sufficient recurve._ - _A delta._ - _A ridge count across a looping ridge._ It must be remembered that a recurve must be free of any appendage abutting upon it at a right angle between the shoulders, and a true ridge count is obtained only by crossing a looping ridge freely, with a white space intervening between the delta and the ridge to be counted.
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.
Quotes with RECURVE (1)
Already, Cullum felt a stirring of interest. The name Horace and the mention of an oakleaf symbol struck a chord in his memory. Sir Horace, the Oakleaf Knight, was a legendary figure in Araluen, even in a place as remote as Norgate. Of course, the more remote the location, the more garbled and fantastic the legends became. As Cullum had hear tell, Sir Horace had been a youth of sixteen when he defeated the tyrant Morgarath in single combat, slicing the head off the evil lord'…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–2013).