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▪ I. overˈbend, v.
[over- 3, 1, 27.]
1. a. trans. To bend (something) over or to one side. b. To bend over (something). c. intr. To bend or stoop over.
1617Hieron Wks. II. 359 Like some bulrush that is ouer⁓bent with the strength and violence of a storme. 1845Hirst Poems 168 Like Endymion, over-bent By dazzling Dian. 1856Whittier Ranger 71 Overbending, till she's blending With the flaxen skein she's tending..Sits she. c1886G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 97 Her earliest stars, earlstars, stárs principal, overbend us.
2. trans. To bend too much or to excess.
1624Donne Devot. 290 Vpon misplacing, or ouer-bending our naturall faculties. a1656Bp. Hall Christian §3 Meet relaxations to a mind over-bent. 1897E. L. Taunton Eng. Monks St. Benedict I. 86 The bow cannot be kept over-bent.
▪ II. ˈoverbend, n.
[over- 5 b.]
The curved stretch of pipe above the point of inflexion in the S-shaped length of pipeline being lowered on to the sea bed from a barge. Cf. sagbend.
1969Preprints 1st Ann. Offshore Technol. Conf. II. 38/1 As the lay barge proceeds into deep water the articulated stinger curves downward and the suspended pipe span acquires a distinct S-shaped curve. The upper part of this curve, called the over-bend, is supported by the stinger. 1976Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 130/1 The overbend is supported by rollers on the barge and stinger. |