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Definition of Bendings
1. bending [n] - See also: bending
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bendings
Literary usage of Bendings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"bendings, WILLIAM (ft. 1180), judge, was, according to Giraldus Cambrensis, ...
To the northern circuit six judges were assigned, of whom bendings was one, ..."
2. Geological Story Briefly Told: An Introduction to Geology by James Dwight Dana (1878)
"Mountain ranges have been made, for the most part, through bendings of the earth's
crust, and the upturning and flexures of the rocks. L Upturned rocks. ..."
3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1841)
"On the bendings and Contortions of Strata.—Another subject worthy of attention
is that of the frequent bendings and contortions, partly of the real strata, ..."
4. The Tenures of Kent by Charles Isaac Elton (1867)
"Alienation in fee-farm.— Creation of a new socage tenure.—Case of the Manor of
WEST- WELL.—Early notices of the tenure.—Suit of De bendings v ..."
5. Gymnastic Kinesiology: A Manual of the Mechanism of Gymnastic Movements by William Skarstrom (1913)
"... or of that uprightness of conduct which should underlie all actions and
relations in life. , B. FOOT PLACINGS AND KNEE bendings. 7. ..."
6. The Principles of Mechanical Philosophy Applied to Industrial Mechanics by Thomas [Turner] Tate (1853)
"... bendings ARE INCONSIDERABLE. 45. In this case, the resistances to the flow of
water are, — the resistance due to the ingress of the water at the ..."
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