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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 n. a lever of the first kind, whose arms form an angle with each other, as a bell-crank lever. bent-lever balance n. 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.