Obs. Also corbe. [a. F. courbe, in OF. corbe (= Pr. and Cat. corb, Sp. and It. corvo):—L. curv-us bent.] Bent, bowed, crooked.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 99. Her necke is short, her shulders courbe.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. lvi. (1869), 203. Courbe and impotent j wole make þee with þe grete strokes j shal giue þee.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Feb., 56. So on thy corbe shoulder it [thy head] leanes amisse.
b. Comb., as courbe-backed adj.
1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XII. xvi. An olde lytil man, pale and courbacked. Ibid. (1484), Esope, ij. He had a grete hede … corbe-backed, grete legges and large feet.
