Bending Synonyms & Definitions

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• BendingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.
2. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bend

• BendDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
2. (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
3. (n.) A band.
4. (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
5. (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
6. (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
7. (v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.
8. (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
9. (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.
10. (v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.
11. (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
12. (v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
13. (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
14. (v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
15. (v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
16. (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
17. (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.