Reverse Dictionary: BEND

ADVERBS
1387 ► ACROOK in a bend or curve; awry → chiefly literary usage

NOUNS
1425 ► OBLIQUATION a bending aside or in an oblique direction; a twisting awry 
1567 ► CRINK a twist, bend, or crook
1572 ► BENT a bend, a curved part, a crook → obs.
1572 ► CRANK a bend, winding, meandering; a winding or crooked path, course, or channel
1591 ► ELBOW a sharp bend in the course of a river, stream, road, etc. 
1596 ► CRINKLE a twist, a bend; a wrinkle or crease on the surface of something
1598 ► CRANKLE a bend, twist, winding; a curve or angular prominence
1610 ► CREEKING a bend, a turn → obs.
1691 ► BIGHT a bend, esp. a curve in the animal or human body → Eng. dial.
1720 ► SINUOSITY a bend or curve, esp. one of a series; chiefly used in the plural 
1731 ► ARCUATURE the bending or bowing of an arch → obs.
1808 ► CRINGLE a twist, a bend; a wrinkle or crease on the surface of something → Eng. dial. obs.
1828 ► BINK a bending movement → Sc.
1905 ► QUIRK a bend, a circle, anything out of the square; a twist → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOO a bend, a bow → Sc. (Bk.)
1958 ► MEOW a bend or snarl in a line; a crook in a road; anything out of line → Amer. logging usage

VERBS
..888 ► BEY to bend, to cause to bow → obs.
1000 ► ABOW to bend, to incline, to bow, to stoop; fig. to do homage or reverence; to submit → obs.
1175 ► CROOK to bend into an angular form; to curve
1205 ► TO-HIELD to bend, to cause to incline, to lean, to fall over ; to push or pull down → obs.
1325 ► DECLINE to bend or turn aside; to deviate; to turn away → obs.
1382 ► AGAIN-BOW to bend back → obs.
1430 ► CURB to bend, to bow, to curve → obs.
1475 ► CRALL to bend, to curve, to twist, to curl → obs.
1480 ► CRUMP to bend into a curve, to curl up → obs.
1490 ► CRUMB to make crooked or curved; to crook, to bend → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1577 ► CROOKLE to crook or bend in a curve → obs.
1598 ► CRANKLE to bend in and out; to wind, to twist; to run zigzag
1603 ► CROOKEN to be crooked; to bend → obs.
1604 ► CURVIFY to bend, to make curved; to curl hair → obs.
1610 ► CREEK to bend, to turn, to wind → obs.
1665 ► OBLIQUATE to bend aside, to twist obliquely; to distort 
1694 ► DOUP to bend down, to stoop, to duck; to descend, to come down; to fall → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1703 ► HEALD to bend downwards or to one side; to lean, to incline, to slope → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1747 ► BAY to bend → Eng. dial.
1809 ► QUEEVE to bend slowly backwards and forwards as a tree-top → Eng. dial.
1811 ► CURVATURE to bend, to curve 
1819 ► CAMSHACKLE to bend, to distort, to bend, to disorder → Sc.
1821 ► CRINK to bend, to twist; to form into wrinkles or furrows; to crinkle
1835 ► DECURVE to bend or curve down 
1844 ► CURLICUE to bend elaborately or fantastically 
1880 ► NUTATE to bend or droop downwards 
1895 ► BINK to bend down; to lean forward awkwardly; to curtsy → Sc.
1896 ► SCOUCH to bend down, to crouch, to stoop → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BESSEN to bend down, to stoop; to weigh down → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BEW to bend, to twist → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BOO to bend, to bow, to twist → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► QUAIGH to bend, to turn → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► VAG to bend, to give, to yield → Eng. dial.
1933 ► PRETZEL to twist or contort, esp. forcefully; to cause to bend or buckle → orig. & chiefly US