recurved

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of recurve

adj

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.”