recurve

plural recurves

1. countableuncountableA 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.

   not as much recurve as a kukri would have, but plenty enough to make me smile

2. countableuncountableA recurve bow.
3. countableuncountableA landform consisting of a hook at the tip of a coastal spit.

present singular third person recurves · participle present recurving · participle past recurved · past recurved

1. To curve again, to rebend.
2. To curve back on itself.
3. To change direction.

   He also developed a methodology for predicting when a hurricane will recurve to the north and for predicting average storm motion based on the latitude and time of year.

   2006, Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Hurricanes: A Reference Handbook, →ISBN, page 227

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   Nearly all of the storms which originate in the Cape Verde region first move in a westerly direction over the Atlantic and later recurve in a northerly or northeasterly direction.

   1934, Ivan Ray Tannehill, The Hurricane, page 6