Embowed vs Elbowed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between embowed and elbowed

is that embowed is past tense of embow while elbowed is past tense of elbow.

having bends or corners.

(head)

(embow)

(en verb)

(obsolete) To bend like a bow; to curve.

Embowed arches. — Sir Walter Scott.

With gilded horns embowed like the moon. — Spenser.

* embowment (Webster 1913)

(head)

(elbow)

(-)

Having bends or corners.

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :

With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed , fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.

(in combination ) Having some specific type of elbow

* sharp-elbowed