arcing

Verb

arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or (rare) arcking, simple past and past participle arced or (rare) arcked)

1. (ambitransitive) To move following a curved path.
   • A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1, page 106
2. (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
   • His mother, her eyes raised to heaven, hands arked before her, moving, made real for John that patience, that endurance, that long suffering, which he had read in the Bible and found so hard to image.1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 1 (The Seventh Day)
3. (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

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