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▪ I. bent, n.1|bɛnt|
Also bennet.
[A word of difficult history. In the sense of ‘stiff-grass’ or ‘grass-stalk’ (in which alone the variant bennet occurs), it appears to be the representative of OE. beonet-, found as a frequent element in proper names, as Beonet-léah Bentley (see Index to Cod. Dipl. ævi Saxon.). These names do not show the meaning; but beonet:—earlier *binut (with eo as u- umlaut of i), in OS. binet (Schade), is phonetically identical with OHG. binuȥ, MHG. bineȥ, binȥ (str. masc.), mod.G. binse ‘rush, reed, stout grass growing in wet places’:—WGer. *binut, of unknown etymology. But distinct instances of this sense are not found before the 15th c., while the sense of ‘grassy field or surface’ is common in northern writers from the earliest appearance of northern literature. Whether this is the same word is uncertain: it is possible enough that the pl. bents was used for a place where ‘bents’ grew (cf. local names like Totley Bents near Sheffield) and that this led to the use of the sing. bent as ‘open grassy place.’ They are here united provisionally.]
I.
1. A name given to grass of a reedy or rush-like habit, or which has persistent stiff or rigid stems; also to various grass-like reeds, rushes, sedges, and other plants.
Britten and Holland Plant-n. give a long list of grasses and other plants, to which the name, either simply or with attribute, is locally applied: by the seashore it very generally means the Sea Reed Grass, Psamma or Ammophila arenaria, but also Carex arenaria, Elymus arenaria, Triticum junceum, according to locality; on northern moorlands often Juncus squarrosus, but also Nardus stricta, etc.; in some pastoral and hay districts Cynosurus cristatus (‘Hendon Bent’), Agrostis vulgaris; in other localities, Phalaris arundinacea, Scirpas lacustris, or other marsh-grasses, bulrushes, reeds, or sedges: in Chester and Wiltshire, the name is even given to the common heath and ling, perhaps because they grow on bents: cf. ‘heath.’
a. sing. ‘bent’; pl. ‘bents’.
c1425in Wr.-Wülcker Voc. 644 Hoc gramen, a bent. 1547Boorde Brev. Health ccxcix. 98 b, Use no olde Ryshes nor Bentes in the house. 1601Holland Pliny II. 216 Rushes or bents. 1625Bacon Gardens, Ess. (Arb.) 558 The dust of a Bent. 1783Cowper Task v. 22 The bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest. 1834Mudie Brit. Birds (1841) I. 293 The nest is formed of bents, or other plants growing near the sea. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Visit Grandpapa 21 His foot caught in a bent, and he fell. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. IV. 61 The bents and sedges where the ox could not feed were excluded from the ox gang. [cf. sense 5.]
b. collectively. Cf. grass.
1570Levins Manip. 66 Bent, smal rushes, iuncus. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 366 He..couered him with a great deal of Reed and Bent. 1778Lightfoot Fl. Scot. I. 107 Arundo arenaria, Sea Reed-Grass, Anglis. Bent, Scotis. Muran, Gaulis. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 152 It had been the custom to pull up the bent, a long spiry grass, near the shore. 1795Burke Th. on Scarcity Wks. VII. 406 The rye-grass, or coarse bent, suffered more than the clover. 1848W. Gardiner Flora Forfar. 194 It [Ammophila arundina] is termed Bent, and..is valuable in binding the loose sand. 1882Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. iii. 463 There is a considerable ascent over ground rough with bent (Nardus stricta).
†c. in pl. A bundle of reed-grass. Obs.
1597Gerard Herbal i. iii. (1633) 6, I take this last to be the grasse with which we in London do usually adorn our chimneys..: and we commonly call the bundle of it handsomely made up for our use by the name of Bents.
2. The stiff flower-stalk of grasses. (In this sense bennet prevails in the southern counties.)
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 45 The time of cutting of it [grass] is when the Bent beginneth to fade and waxe stiffe, and before it wither. 1601Holland Pliny II. 273 It hath certain little husks or cods hanging by small bents. 1752Lisle Husb. 308 The grass will not grow afresh, unless the dying bennets be cut off. (Gloss.) Bennets, bents, Spiry grass running to seed. 1881Jefferies Wood Magic 1 Then he drew forth a bennet from its sheath.
b. ‘Applied usually to the old stalks of various grasses.’ Britten and Holland.
1827Keble Chr. Y. 20 Sund. Trin. ii, Through withered bents. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. vii. 7 Mow the dry bents down. 1866Treas. Bot. 135 Bents, a common country name for the dried stalks or culms of various grasses occurring in pastures.
c. The stalks and seeding heads of two species of Plantain (Plantago major and lanceolata); in East Yorkshire, the dry stalks of Hypochæris radicata. Britten and Holland.
1612Chapman Widows T. in Dodsley VI. 192 As a mower sweeps off the heads of bents. 1655Mouffet & Bennet Health's Impr. (1746) 173 [Birds] that feed upon good Corn, Bents, or wholesome Seeds.
3. In English Botany, the name of the genus Agrostis. More fully bent-grass: see III.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 186 Many species of Bent (Agrostis), particularly the Rhode Island Bent (Agrostis interrupta). 1838Loudon Encycl. Plants s.v. Agrostis, A. vulgaris..is the most common and earliest of the bents.
4. star or stool bent, Juncus squarrosus, Psamma arenaria; sweet bent, Luzula campestris; way bent, Hordeum murinum; white, or wire bent, Nardus stricta.
1597Gerard Herball (1633) 73 Wilde barley, called..after old English writers, Way Bennet. 1620Markham Farew. Husb. ii. xix. (1668) 103 These mats should rather be made of dry white bents, then of flags and bulrush.
II.
5. A place covered with grass, as opposed to a wood; a bare field, a grassy plain, unenclosed pasture-land, a heath. Of northern origin. In ME. the stock poetic word for ‘the field’ (of battle), L. campus, due partly at least to its alliteration with battle, bicker, bide, brush, busk, bleed, bold, bale, etc. Used by some modern poets.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1675 As best, byte on þe bent of braken & erbes. c1360Song of Merci in E.E.P. (1862) 118 Lyouns raumpyng vppon bente. c1400Destr. Troy iv. 1192 Bothe batels on bent brusshet to-gedur. 1420Siege Rouen in Archæol. XXI. 51 Buschys, brerys, and bowys they brent, They made hyt bare as evyr was bent. a1500Chevy Chase 11 Bomen byckarte vppone the bent with ther browd Aros cleare. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 152 Thre litill battellis buskit on the bent. a1552Leland Brit. Coll. I. 232 They mette at a bent by Bourne at a bridge ende a litle from Ludlow. 1552Lyndesay Dreme 919 We saw a boustius berne cum ouir ye bent. 1664Floddan F. ix. 84 [Three lords] Upon the bent did breathlesse bide. 1808Scott Marm. ix. xxv, Since Marmion saw that martial scene Upon the bent so brown. 1858Kingsley Ode N.E. Wind 32 On by holt and headland, Over heath and bent.
b. to flee, go, take to the bent: to escape to the moors or the open country, e.g. to avoid danger, creditors, etc.
c1450Henryson Lyon & Mous xxxv, And he start up annone, And thankit them; syn to the Bent is gane. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, Wi' gloomin' brow, the laird seeks in his rent; It's no to gie; your merchant's to the bent. 1818Scott Rob Roy II. 259 Take the bent, Mr. Rashleigh. Make ae pair o' legs worth twa pair o' hands.
6. ? A hill-side, rising ground, slope, brae. (Perhaps because these were the localities naturally left in permanent pasture; but the sense is doubtful. Only in southern writers. (Cf. next word.)
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1123 And downward on an hil under a bent, Ther stood the tempul of Marz armypotent. c1475Sqr. lowe Degree 65 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 25 In to that arber wolde he go, And vnder a bente he layde hym lowe. 1600Fairfax Tasso xx. ix. 365 To the left wing, spred vnderneath the bent Of the steepe hill. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 320 Worn out, he fell beneath a woody bent. 1876― Sigurd i. 19 They came to the topmost of a certain grassy bent.
III. Comb. chiefly attrib., as bent-mat, bent-rope, bent-stalk. Also bent-grass = bent (sense 1), esp. in Eng. Bot. the genus Agrostis; bent-land, land covered with stiff grass, reeds, etc.; bent-star [ON. störr, gen. starar, Sw. starr ‘bent-grass, carex’], the Sea Bent or Sea Reed Grass (Psamma arenaria): cf. sense 4.
1778Lightfoot Fl. Scot. I. 93 Agrostis canina, Brown *Bent-grass.
1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 458 Tufts of the *bent-grass (Arundo arenaria, common here, as in all sandy wastes).
1884Weekly Times 19 Sept. 5/2 Planting *bent grass along the sea-shore to check the drifting by the Sands.
1883Birmingh. Weekly Post 1/5 A ‘Golf Club’ which..wields its clubs on the sandy *bentlands near Bawdsey Ferry, close by.
1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. vii. (1668) 163 *Bent Mats, where one bent or straw is laid by another, and so woven together with a good strong pack-thread.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 144 Slender *bent-stalks topt with feathery down.
1822J. Platts Bk. Curios. 523 Known to the Highlanders by the name of muran, and to the English by that of *bent-star.
▪ II. bent, n.2|bɛnt|
Also 6 bente.
[f. bend v.; probably on analogy of words from L. or Fr.: cf. descend, descent, extend, extent; F. pendre, pente, rendre, rente. There appears to be no sufficient analogy for its formation from the past pple.]
1. A curved position or form; curvature, bending degree of curvature. Also fig. (Now rare.)
1541Elyot Image Govt. (1549) 100 For the Theatre was a place made in the fourme of a bowe, that hath a great bente. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry ii. v. 49, I find the Bend drawne somewhat Archwise or after the resemblance of the Bent of a Bow. 1755Borlase in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 375, I attribute it to..the bent of the western land. 1860Heads & Hats 20 With trifling modification of brim and bent and height of crown, we retain the thing [hat] in all its offensive characteristics!
†2. A curved part, a bend, a crook. Obs.
1572L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1627) 271 Hard vnto the bent of the staple. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 313 Overthwart the bent of the [horse's] knee. 1653Walton Angler 111 Make these fast at the bent of the hook.
†3. A piece bent into a curve; a bow. Obs.
1521Will Pylbarowgh (Somerset Ho.), Gown whiche I ware every daye with a bent of velvett to the skyrte. 1588W. Averell Combat Contrar. B, Their bents of Whale bone to beare out their bummes. 1607Middleton Michaelm. Term i. ii. Wires and tires, bents and bums, felts and falls. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 84 Clay thus pretily dispersed in the form of a bent.
†4. Flexure, bending, crooking. Obs.
1567Triall Treas. (1850), It is I that doe guyde the bent of your bowe. 1590Greene Arcad. (1616) 57 With reuerence and lowly bent of knee. 1642Rogers Naaman To Rdr. §2 Rather then she will come to the bent of Gods bow.
†5. Inclination, bowing, stooping, nodding. Obs.
1584T. Lodge Forb. & Prisc. 22 b, With..a seemely bent, as requiting his curtesie. 1596Chapman Iliad ii. 95 To vow, and bind it with the bent Of his high forehead. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 231 In vain the shrubs, with lowly bent, Sought their Destruction to prevent.
6. a. The condition of being deflected, inclined, or turned in some direction; a turn, twist, inclination; direction given by bending; cast (of the eye), etc. Usually fig.
1534More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1206/1 For a little coumfort, is bent ynough therto for them. a1600Hooker (J.) The wilful bent of their obstinate hearts against it. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 210, I can giue his humour the true bent. 1611― Cymb. i. i. 13 They weare their faces to the bent Of the Kings lookes. 1664J. Nalton in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxvii. 10 The bent of it [a magnet] will be toward the North Pole. a1700Dryden (J.) My reason took the bent of thy command. a1704Locke (J.) The exercising the understanding..teacheth the mind suppleness, to apply itself more dexterously to bents and turns of the matter, in all its researches. 1713Steele Guardian No. 15 ⁋1 To cross the bent of a young lady's genius. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 328 To follow the bent of her own taste. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) II. 281 To counteract wholly the bent of natural character.
b. esp. Mental inclination or tendency; disposition; propensity, bias. The usual modern sense.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinsh. II. 155/1 He saw the bent and disposition of the earle. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iv. §2 The whole inclination and bent of those times. 1692South 12 Serm. (1697) I. 429 Bents, and Propensities, and Inclinations, will not do the Business. 1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 83 He knew he did not like to be a carpenter, but had not discovered his own bent. 1840Arnold in Life & Corr. (1844) II. ix. 200 If your bent seems to be to the work of a Missionary.
c. † Phrase. to bring any one to, or have him at, one's bent. Obs.
1575Turberv. Venerie 136 Such toyles and toyes as hunters use to bring me to their bents. 1658Bramhall Consecr. Bps. iii. 59 That by this meanes they should..bring the Queene to their bent. 1660C. Bonde Scut. Reg. 286 They would have had the King buckled to their bent.
d. Tendency of motion, course, ‘set’ of a current.
1648Milton Tenure Kings 39 The whole bent of their actions was against the King. 1817Wordsw. Lament Mary Q. Scots, A sister Queen, against the bent Of law and holiest sympathy, Detains me. 1855M. Arnold Sonn. Cruikshank, Man can control To pain, to death, the bent of his own days.
†7. That towards which an action, etc. is directed; aim, purpose, intention. Obs.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Ded., For, not marking the compasse of his bent, he will iudge of the length of his cast. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits x. (1596) 141 The Oratour..it behooueth..to vse rules..to the end the hearers may not smell out his fetch and bent. 1798Malthus Popul. (1817) III. 297 The principal bent of this work.
†8. Force with which a bow bent or a spring wound up tends to spring back; hence, impetus, concentrated energy. F. élan. Obs.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 454 He rusheth upon Haddon with all the bent of his Eloquence. 1690Norris Beatitudes I. 107 Such a Desire as carries in it the full bent and stress of the Soul. 1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 796 False joys, indeed, are born from want of thought; From thought's full bent, and energy, the true.
9. Extent to which a bow may be bent or a spring wound up, degree of tension; hence degree of endurance, capacity for taking in or receiving; limit of capacity, etc. Now only in the Shaksperian phrase: to the top of one's bent, or the like.
1594Drayton Idea 596 Beyond the bent of his unknowing Sight. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 401 They foole me to the top of my bent. 1641Milton Reform. i. Wks. (1851) 1 Suffering to the lowest bent of weaknesse in the Flesh, and presently triumphing to the highest pitch of glory in the Spirit. 1871Smiles Charac. vi. (1876) 178 He flattered French vanity to the top of its bent. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) II. 238 When you have allowed me to add µηχανὴ (contrivance) to τέχνη (art) I shall be at the top of my bent.
10. Technical uses, of various origin. Building, Carpentry, etc.: a section of a framework or framed building. (orig. U.S.).
1674Cotton in Singer Hist. Cards 343 First, for cutting be sure of a good putt-card, they use the bent, the slick, and the breef; the bent is a card bended in play which you cut. 1815Niles' Reg. IX. 200/2 On each of them [sc. the floats] were raised two bents or frames. Ibid., This made sixteen bents, on which the grand and enormous structure was raised. 1824T. Hogg Carnation 23 Veins of rust or oxyde of iron..in soil..[are] called by farmers, till or fox bent. a1877Knight Dict. Mech., Bent, one section of the frame of a building, which is put together on the ground..and then raised. 1881Greener Gun 245 A very old smooth file, worn almost to a burnisher, is used to finish the bents and bearings of the lock. Ibid. 263 The sear may then be lifted off, if the tumbler is not in bent. 1898Engineering Mag. XVI. 91 The cradle is composed of forty-three inverted bents, twelve feet apart. 1952Archit. Rev. CXI. 179 At the top of the boom may be seen the steel cables, attached to the [timber] bent.
¶ Bent of a hill occurs too early to belong to this word, but it was perhaps afterwards confused with it. See bent n.1 6.
▪ III. bent, ppl. a.|bɛnt|
Also 6 bend(e
[f. bend v.]
1. a. Constrained into a curve, as a strung bow; curved, crooked, deflected from the straight line.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 575 The Bente Mone with her hornys pale. 1483Cath. Angl. 28 Bent as a bowe, extensus. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §3 A bende pece of yren. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 478 The particles of the bended body, whilst it is held bent. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 141 The two bones..constitute a bent and horizontal lever. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 402 That bent and weary Jew.
b. bent brow: an arched eyebrow (obs.); a wrinkled or knit brow.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 1074 A wel schape man was hee, With Browes bente & eȝen stoute. c1400Rom. Rose 861 Bent were hir browis two, Hir yen greye, & glad also. a1641Strafford Lett. I. 179 This bent and ill-favoured brow of mine. 1853Lytton My Novel ii. vii, The sad gaze of the Parson, the bent brow of the Squire.
c. Forming part of the name of various modifications of tools or apparatus which have the blade, or other part bent to adapt them to special purposes: as bent-gauge, bent-gouge, bent-graver, bent-rasp, which have a bent or curved blade; bent-lever, a lever of the first kind, whose arms form an angle with each other, as a bell-crank lever; bent-lever balance, a balance having a short bent arm bearing a scale, and a long weighted arm the leverage of which increases as it ascends, ending in an index pointing to divisions in a graduated arc.
d. In the names of articles, work, etc., in which the materials are bent to shape, as bent iron work, the making of ornamental ironwork as a home occupation, by bending strips of iron to form the various parts of the design; also, the ornamental ironwork thus made; bent-panel, one that is bent to shape instead of framed; in quot. attrib.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Bent-timber Manufacturer, a shaper of timber by steam and pressure. 1902P. N. Hasluck (title) Bent Iron Work. 1909Stratford-on-Avon Herald 7 May 4/3 For sale, excellent Bent-panel dog cart.
†2. Braced, nerved, or wound up for action; couched for a spring; levelled or aimed as a weapon. † sharp-bent: sharp-set, hungry. Obs.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 1486 To dragouns ther layen y-bent. c1500Rob. Hood (Ritson) i. ii. 57 Robin howt with a swerd bent, A bokeler en hes honde [therto]. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ii. v, Stood at the Castlesgate, now ready bent To sally out. 1675Wycherley Country Wife v. (1735) 95 Ceremony and Expectation are unsufferable to those that are sharp bent; people always eat with the best stomach at an ordinary.
†3. Determined, resolute, devoted, inclined, set.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xxvi. 116 With bent myndes had conspired the death. 1571R. Ascham Scholem. (1863) 87 The bent enemie against God and good order. 1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 66 With a bent affection. 1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. 2nd. Ded. ad. fin., My Lords and Gentlemen, Your most passionately-bent Fellow-Subject. 1740L. Clarke Hist. Bible I. ix. 579 Being bent to have his revenge on the inhabitants of Ptolemais.
4. Directed in a course, on one's way, bound.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 296 Nor must the Ploughman less observe the Skies..Than Saylors homeward bent.
5. fig. (cf. crooked a. 3). In various slang uses:
a. Dishonest, ‘crooked’, criminal. Also as n. orig. U.S.
b. Illegal; stolen. orig. U.S.
c. Of things: out of order, spoiled. Of persons: eccentric, perverted; spec. homosexual (also as n.). (In quot. 1958 ‘faithless’.)
a.1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 17 Bent, crooked; larcenous. Example: His kisser shows that he's bent. 1948Sunday Pictorial 29 Aug. 6/5 A ‘bent screw’..a crooked warder who is prepared to traffic with a prisoner. 1958Times 14 Feb. 3/5 What made the witness think the two officers were offering a bribe? Mitchell replied, ‘I had known for years that certain members of the Brighton police force were what we call bent.’ Ibid., There were plenty of ways in which bents could help. 1963Ibid. 2 Feb. 9/6 Successful crime preventing does not make criminals give up; they simply change their methods, or as Mr. Brown said: ‘They stay bent but alter their tactics.’
b.1930E. H. Lavine Third Degree (1931) iv. 39 For having sold a stolen or bent car to a complainant. 1955P. Wildeblood Against Law 151 He had got a short sentence for receiving stolen goods, which he swore he had not known to be ‘bent’.
c.1930Brophy & Partridge Songs & Slang 1914–18 (ed. 2) 210 Bent, spoiled, ruined, e.g. ‘a good man bent’ or even ‘good tea bent’. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §143/4 Eccentric. Balmy, bats, bent, [etc.]. Ibid. §152/5 Insane; crazy... bent. 1956I. Asimov 9 Tomorrows (1963) iii. 87 He's gone crazy... He was always a little bent. Now he's broken. 1957Rawnsley & Wright Night Fighter v. 75 Whenever a set became unserviceable in the air the code word used to notify ground control was to say that the weapon was ‘bent’. 1957A. Wilson Bit off Map 29 ‘I shouldn't think you did know any Teddy boys, but if you did, I know what they'd call you—a f— bent, see.’..Mr. Fleet..reddened with fury; his reputation as a womaniser was known to everyone. 1958F. Norman Bang to Rights iii. 72 My bird's gone bent... She went case with some geezer now she's liveing [sic] with him. 1959C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 64 No one..cares..if you're boy, or girl, or bent, or versatile, or what you are. 1960F. Raphael Limits of Love i. v. 70 ‘Great thing about gay people...’ ‘Gay?’ Tessa said. ‘Bent, queer, you know. Homosexual.’
▸ slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.). Intoxicated with alcohol or narcotics. Cf. bend v. 23, bender n. 5b.
1833A. Greene Life Dr Duckworth II. 176 He was seldom downright drunk; but was often..confoundedly bent. 1927New Republic 9 Mar. 71/2 The following is a partial list of words denoting drunkenness now in common use in the United States..bent. 1968N. C. Heard Howard St. 161 He was bent, barely able, it seemed, to keep his head up. 1984E. L. Abel Dict. Drug Abuse Terms & Terminol. 16 Bent, under the influence of a drug. 2000T. Robbins Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates 174 Usually, he only went on like this when he was bent or stoned, and that morning he'd had but one beer with breakfast.
Short for bent out of shape (see to bend (a person) out of shape at bend v. Additions) U.S. slang. Angry, annoyed, or upset; worked up. Also with out.
1967Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 2 ii. 5 Bent, angry or extremely displeased. 1970D. Quammen To walk Line xii. 92 Ain't all them honkies gon' be a little bent out when they see my black ass? 2004C. Dokey How not to spend your Senior Year 134 Well you don't have to get all bent about it.
▸ Music. Of a note, etc.: altered in pitch or tone, deliberately distorted. Cf. bend v. Additions.
1950Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 30 Mar. 35/1 Frank [Sinatra]..served his customers personality as well as bent notes. 1965Down Beat 9 Sept. 28 His..solo work..contains some judiciously placed bent tones. 1993Wire Feb. 57/2 The notes produced by the musicians are so ‘bent’ as to be almost Oriental. |