Definition of bend

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Bend (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road..

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Prebendship :: Prebendship (n.) A prebendaryship.
Bulgy :: Bulgy (a.) Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward..
Incurvation :: Incurvation (n.) The act of bending, or curving..
Sag :: Sag (v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
Bendy :: Bendy (a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
Snotter :: Snotter (n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat..
Bight :: Bight (v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop..
Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
Reclinant :: Reclinant (a.) Bending or leaning backward.
Oxbow :: Oxbow (n.) A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river..
Twist :: Twist (n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.
Inwards :: Inwards (a.) Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward..
Flex :: Flex (v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm..
Deflexure :: Deflexure (n.) A bending or turning aside; deflection.
Bulge :: Bulge (n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall..
Falcade :: Falcade (n.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets..
Plash :: Plash (v. t.) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge..
Sny :: Sny (n.) An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.
Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar..
Sput :: Spur-winged (a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.
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