ARCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arching mean? 

• ARCHING (adjective)
  The adjective ARCHING has 1 sense:

1. forming or resembling an arch

  Familiarity information: ARCHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forming or resembling an arch

Synonyms:

arced; arched; arching; arciform; arcuate; bowed

Context example:

an arched ceiling

Similar:

curved; curving (having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend)

Domain category:

architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)

 Context examples 

“By St. Paul! Edricson,” said the knight coldly, arching his eyebrows, “you aim high in this matter. Our blood is very old.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was only by the severest muscular exertion and neck- arching that he succeeded in getting the wood between his teeth, and barely between his teeth at that; and it was only by the exercise of an immense patience, extending through many hours, that he succeeded in gnawing through the stick.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The handsome brute, just subdued, stood arching his neck under the tightly drawn rein, with one foot impatiently pawing the ground, and ears pricked up as if listening for the voice that had mastered him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was a middle-sized man, of most massive and robust build, with an arching chest and extraordinary breadth of shoulder.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Looking down the room, Alleyne marked that both floor and ceiling were of the richest oak, the latter spanned by twelve arching beams, which were adorned at either end by the lilies and the lions of the royal arms.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)