arcuation Meaning, Definition & Usage

Arc`u*a"tion noun
Etymology
L. arcuatio.
Definitions
  1. The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness. Coxe.
  2. (Hort.) A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

Webster 1913