[f. BEND v. + -ING2.] That bends (in various senses of the vb.); curving, curved, inclined, bowing; flexible, pliable, supple.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 109. With hir bending bodie.
1571. Norton & Sackv., Gorboduc, I. i. (1847), 104. Their yet greene bending wittes.
1605. Shaks., Lear, IV. i. 76. A Cliffe, whose high and bending head Lookes fearfully on the confined Deepe.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Eclog., X. 103. Bending Osiers into Baskets weav’d. Ibid., Georg., II. 512. Some bending Valley.
1715. Pope, Iliad, IV. 555. To shape the circle of the bending wheel.
1810. Southey, Kehama, XV. xi. Behold her go … Along the bending sand.
