#curving

• Bending — The act of bending into a hook shape and its result; the physical or mechanical process through which a rigid object (such as a wire, a metal bar, or a nail) is bent, curved, or inflected into a hook. It represents a nominalized form used in traditional household or trade language to define the controlled angular deformation of a material.
• Arcare — The act of arching and its result; a physical, geometric, or structural process through which an object, line, surface, or construction element is bent, curved, or shaped into the form of an arch. In civil engineering and architecture, it represents the curved configuration of load-bearing structures to optimally distribute gravitational loads.
• Arching — A regional, phonetic, or archaic variant for the term 'arcuire' (bending/arching); the action of bending or curving a flexible object into the shape of a bow and its result; a structural process through which an elastic material (wood, metal, or plastic) is subjected to a torsional or mechanical tension force to achieve a concave or convex form. In a crafting sense, arciuirea describes the manual shaping of structural load-bearing elements in traditional wagons, barrels, or hunting bows.
• Bend into an arc — A regional phonetic variant or archaic form found in certain rural dialects for the verb 'a arciui' (or 'a arcuie'); the action of bending, curving, or shaping a flexible material (wood, metal bars) into an arc. In a traditional crafting sense, the term describes the process by which wheelwrights or coopers alter the structural geometric axis of wooden components via exposure to steam or heat to increase plasticity.