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bentwood
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture; "bentwood chairs"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ship's hulls etc)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bentwood objects are those made by wetting wood (either by soaking or by steaming), then bending it and letting it harden into curved shapes and patterns. In furniture making this method is often used in the production of rocking chairs , cafe chairs, and ...
Usage examples of bentwood.
And then there was that day in the far past when she had run to Simon Bentwood, the farmer, after hearing that his wife had died, feeling that his arms would be widespread to greet her.
I got a bit snotty with her and I said to her, Farmer Bentwood believes in witchery, her witchery.
Tilly made the acquaintance of Lucy Bentwood one day towards the end of June.
It was as she turned from looking at the display behind the great new plate glass window of a shop that she came face to face with Simon Bentwood and his wife.
He put his hand to the side and Lucy Bentwood, staring at her, inclined her head, then gave the slightest bob of her knee.
It was a question she had asked herself on the very day Matthew expressed his passion for her, and she knew that she loved him although she had loved his father, and once long, long ago she had loved Simon Bentwood too.
Willy, for she could imagine how the bitter, frustrated Simon Bentwood would look upon his daughter favouring her son, and he with his handicap.
But for the Bentwood girl, she guessed that Simon Bentwood would rather see his daughter dead than married to her son.
Mr Bentwood, sprang on him and got hold of him by the throat, so Peg said, but Master Willy, being good at throwing people off, got free.
Later the same day the only person he saw and the last one he wanted to encounter was Simon Bentwood himself.
Perhaps it was not only the sight of Tilly standing levelling a gun at him that raised the fury in Bentwood but the fact that she seemed surrounded by all her lackeys, for besides the two flunkeys three outside men were standing by her now.
Well, Farmer Bentwood had seen to him, laid him on his back for close on a week he had, almost put an end to his whoring too, so it was said.
After hearing this news, Simon Bentwood looked for his wife and found her in the dairy, her arms turning the wheel of the churn.
Noreen Bentwood before her father did, because it was well known that Simon too was searching, not so frequently perhaps but with more advantage.
I cannot wait to leave this land and be once again with you, and with Willy, even with his wife, if Miss Bentwood has returned.