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bender|ˈbɛndə(r)|
[f. bend v. + -er1.]
He who or that which bends.
1. An instrument for bending; a pair of pliers.
1496Bk. St. Albans, Fysshynge 14 For makynge your hokis..a bender, a payr of longe and smalle tongys. 1598Florio, Piegatoie, a paire of benders that goldsmithes vse, called bowing pincers or plyers. 1833Rennie Alph. Angling 69 The artist, of [fish-hooks] requires a hammer, a knife, a pair of pincers..a bender.
†2. A mechanical contrivance for bending, ‘drawing up,’ or setting cross-bows. Obs.
1684R. Waller Nat. Exper. 146 Cros-bows that are bent with a Bender.
3. One who bends.
1596Spenser F.Q. i. i. 9 The eugh, obedient to the benders will. 1833Medwin in Fraser's Mag. VII. 18 He..leads on the benders of the bow.
4.
†a. A flexor muscle. Obs.
1615Crooke Body of Man 791 This muscle with the second and third benders of the thumb. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iv. viii. 165 Two Benders of the Cubit.
b. A leg or knee. slang (orig. U.S.).
1849Longfellow Kavanagh xii, Young ladies are not allowed to cross their benders in school. 1925A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose iii. xi, They say family prayers there with the servants every night, all down on their benders.
5.
†a. Sc. A hard drinker. Obs. (Cf. bend v. 23.)
1728Ramsay Poems (1848) III. 162 Now lend your lugs, ye benders fine, Wha ken the benefit of wine. 1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 53 Or benders, blest your wizzens weetin'.
b. A bout of drinking; a riotous party. slang (orig. U.S.).
1846D. Corcoran Pickings from Portfolio 62, I was on an almighty big bender last night..and the way we did walk into the highly concentrated hard cider. 1887J. Hatton Old Ho. Sandwich I. ii. iv. 82 The boss of Drummond's Gulch may be said to have begun his ‘bender’, as a bout of drunken dissipation was called in these regions. 1929K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 7 And I've warned Paddy Hanson to look after Hughie if Sam does get on a bender. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 14 June 11/4 Being on a strenuous bender, he had forgotten to sign a cheque. 1951Wodehouse Old Reliable iv. 64 Where's the harm in an occasional bender? Boys will be boys.
6. slang. A sixpence. (? Because it bends easily.)
1836Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 68/2 ‘Niver mind the loss of two bob and a bender!’ 1837― Pickw. xlii. (D.) ‘Will you take three bob?’ ‘And a bender,’ suggested the clerical gentleman. 1855Thackeray Newcomes xi, ‘A half-crown, Honeyman? By cock and pye it is not worth a bender.’
7. A big or good specimen of its kind; a ‘whopper’, ‘corker’ (s.w. dial.).
1842Daniel Bride of Scio 190 (E.D.D.), Ma vice [= fist] es wat I kal a bendur. 1891R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland s.v., ‘A proper bender, an' no mistake!’ 1895Kipling Day's Work (1898) 180 By Jove, it's a bender of a night.
▸ slang (orig. U.S., now chiefly Brit.). Originally: a homosexual man who assumes the receptive role in anal intercourse. In later use also (more generally): a (male) homosexual. Cf. bent adj. 5c.
Originally used as a non-derogatory term among male homosexuals, but now chiefly derogatory and in more general use.
1965Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 3 Bender, a homosexual who submits to passive anal intercourse. 1971D. Rader Gov't Inspected Meat xi. 121 Get ass-fucked like a bender by a butching lover. 1977Spare Rib July 31/1 A dialogue about gayness began when the team challenged the coach, demanding to know if she was a ‘bender’! 1986J. Joseph Persephone xxxvi. 177 He was a known bender. 1996Daily Mirror (Nexis) 7 Sept. 16 Most of the people there were gay and I heard Liam say to Noel:..‘They're all benders. I'm off!’ 2002Observer 10 Nov. i. 31/4, I remembered hearing Fleet Street homophobes rave about the distinction between ‘stabbers’ and ‘benders’ for hours.
▸ Brit. (orig. in Gypsy usage). Also more fully bender tent. A shelter made by covering a framework of bent branches with canvas or tarpaulin.
1934Times 10 Jan. 7/5 They lived..in ‘benders’—willow branches bent over and covered with sacks. 1958Man 58 89/1 The bender tent is familiar in Britain as the typical shelter of the Gypsies, particularly in the New Forest and in Surrey. 1993R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 220 We were all going to spend the winter together, so we thought we might as well build one big bender. 1997R. Rendell Road Rage (1998) vi. 73 Jordan's men began pulling people out of the bender tents. 2001A. Sayle Dog Catcher 306, I would go and live wild in a bender in the woods. |