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Bender   Listen
noun
Bender  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, bends.
2.
An instrument used for bending.
3.
A drunken spree. (Low, U. S.)
4.
A sixpence. (Slang, Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bender" Quotes from Famous Books



... I could find somethin' of yer pa's that would do. Here's his white gloves he wore that time he was pallbearer to ole Mr. Bender. Seems to me they do wear white gloves to ...
— Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • Alice Caldwell Hegan

... control of all the chief avenues of trade throughout those regions. By treaties of alliance and commerce with the Great Mogul and other smaller sovereigns and chieftains factories were established at Hooghly on the Ganges, at Coelim, Surat, Bender Abbas, Palembang and many other places. In the Moluccas they had the entire spice trade in their hands. Thus a very large part of the products of the Orient found its way to Europe by way of Amsterdam, which had become increasingly the commercial emporium ...
— History of Holland • George Edmundson

... nothin' to bender, but take a fool's advice, and ef you've got money in your pocket, don't ...
— The Young Explorer • Horatio Alger

... Phantom Fish will delight those who, like the Baron, love the mixture as before of the weird and the humorous. In the Phantom Fish there is much local dialect, and The Baron coming across the expression, "a proper bender," is inclined to ask if this is not Zummerzetsheer for, and only applicable to, a running hare? The Baron remembers the expression well, though 'tis years since he heard it, and owns to being uncertain as ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 15, 1892 • Various



Words linked to "Bender" :   fender-bender, booze-up, curve, pitch, toot, carousal, breaking ball, carouse, revelry



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