BENT
(also see BEND)
ADJECTIVES
1400 ► KIRKED bent, crooked; turning upwards → obs.
1401 ► TO-BENT quite bent, bent low → obs.
1425 ► OBLIQUATE bent to one side; twisted obliquely → obs.
1430 ► COURBED bowed, bent, crooked → obs.
1500 ► CURBED bent, bowed, curved → obs.
1585 ► TURNED bent, twisted
1626 ► ADUNQUE → ADUNC bent inward, hooked
1642 ► CAM bent from the straight, crooked, twisted → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1646 ► REPANDOUS bent upward or outward → obs.
1656 ► ADUNCOUS bent inward, hooked, incurved, crooked downwards
1661 ► ADUNCATE bent inward; hooked → obs.
1701 ► CRANK bent → US
1705 ► FLECTIBLE capable of being bent → obs.
1731 ► ARCUATILE bent or bowed → obs.
..19C ► BOOLIE bent, crooked, deformed → Sc.
1825 ► CRANK crooked, distorted; angularly twisted or bent → Sc.
1845 ► CANKERED bent, twisted → Sc.
1901 ► KEAKY-RIDGED bent inwards → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 ► CROOKED AS A DOG’S HIND LEG bent, very crooked → Amer. dial.
1905 ► HALF-COW’D bent, stooping → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOW’T bent, bowed; crooked → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOWLIE bent, crooked → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOWLTEST the most bent or crooked → Sc. (Bk.)
1919 ► BENDIFIED bent → Amer. dial.
1960 ► AKINK bent, kinked (as at the ‘elbow’ or bend of wing); not fully extended → Amer. dial.
1992 ► DUKE OF KENT bent → UK rhyming sl.
NOUNS
1425 ► CURVITY a being bent or curved; curvedness; also, a curve
1881 ► DECURVATION a being bent downwards
1887 ► DECURVATURE a being bent downwards
VERBS
1599 ► CURVIFY to become bent or curved → obs.
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