rebend
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]rebend (third-person singular simple present rebends, present participle rebending, simple past and past participle rebent)
- To bend again.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
- These hooks are made of soft metal, to be rebent after use; but the cod very often get away with them and are hooked again elsewhere; and that is one of the many reasons why the Gloucester boats despise the Frenchmen.