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[BEIN.] "Now lend your lugs, ye benders fine, Wha ken the benefit of wine." Ramsay: Poems , 11. 520. (Jamie son.) IL That which bends any person or thing. Spec ., an instrument for bending anything. "These bows, being somewhat like the long hows in use amongst us, were bent only by a man's immediate strength, without the help of any bender , or rack that are used to others."- Wilkins : Math. Magick. Good rich and Porter give, on the authority of Bartlett, the signification "A spree, a frolic, a jollification," calling it American and vulgar . běnd'-ing, pr. par., a., & s. [BEND, v.] A. & B. As present participle & participial adjective: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. "To shape the circle of the bending wheel." Pope: Homer's Iliad , iv. 555. C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of crooking, curving, flexing, or inflecting anything; the state of being so crooked, curved, flexed, or inflected. IMG:content-1228.png:[blocks in formation] bending-strake, s. Ship- carpentry (pl.): Two strakes wrought near the coverings of the deck, worked all fore and aft a little thicker than the rest of the deck, and let down between the beams and ledges, so that the upper side is even with the rest.