Meaning of Bend | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A ghost town and former railway community in central British Columbia, Canada. Named after a 90-degree curve in the railway line.
2. A curve.
3. A census-designated place in Tehama County, California, United States.
4. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
5. A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
   in-plural
6. An unincorporated community in Maries County, Missouri, United States.
7. One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
8. A city, the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States.
9. Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
   obsolete
10. An unincorporated community in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
11. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
12. An unincorporated community in Lampasas County and San Saba County, Texas, United States.
13. Hard, indurated clay; bind.
14. A surname.
15. The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
    in-plural
16. The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
    in-plural
17. A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).

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Examples

“There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.”

“I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend”

“I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.”

“A simpler version of the common bend with its ends in the same direction is used to join binder twine in a hay baling machine.”

“A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.”

“Perhaps the most celebrated coat of arms is that of Scrope, which is Azure a bend Or. This is the coat over which, from 1385 to 1390, Sir Robert le Grosvenor and Sir Richard le Scrope invoked the High Court of Chivalry to decide which of them had the right to bear these arms. Chaucer gave evidence before the court. In the end the arms were awarded to Scrope, and Grosvenor was ordered to difference with a bordure Argent. This he disdained to do, and being highly dissatisfied with the verdict he appealed to Richard II who altered the decision of the court by refusing to allow the bend to Grosvenor at all! Grosvenor then adopted a garb, or sheaf of corn.”

“Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.”

“the midship bends”

“Many locals thought doing so contradicted the democratic spirit of skiing, where strangers sharing a lift chair might include both billionaires with second homes in Bend and ski bums living in vans.”

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