Arcuation

1. n. A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering.
2. n. The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.