▪ I. overˈbend, v.
[over- 3, 1, 27.]
1. a. trans. To bend (something) over or to one side. b. To bend over (something). c. intr. To bend or stoop over.
| 1617 Hieron Wks. II. 359 Like some bulrush that is ouer⁓bent with the strength and violence of a storme. 1845 Hirst Poems 168 Like Endymion, over-bent By dazzling Dian. 1856 Whittier Ranger 71 Overbending, till she's blending With the flaxen skein she's tending..Sits she. c 1886 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 97 Her earliest stars, earlstars, stárs principal, overbend us. |
2. trans. To bend too much or to excess.
| 1624 Donne Devot. 290 Vpon misplacing, or ouer-bending our naturall faculties. a 1656 Bp. Hall Christian §3 Meet relaxations to a mind over-bent. 1897 E. L. Taunton Eng. Monks St. Benedict I. 86 The bow cannot be kept over-bent. |
▪ II. ˈoverbend, n.
[over- 5 b.]
The curved stretch of pipe above the point of inflexion in the S-shaped length of pipeline being lowered on to the sea bed from a barge. Cf. sagbend.
| 1969 Preprints 1st Ann. Offshore Technol. Conf. II. 38/1 As the lay barge proceeds into deep water the articulated stinger curves downward and the suspended pipe span acquires a distinct S-shaped curve. The upper part of this curve, called the over-bend, is supported by the stinger. 1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 130/1 The overbend is supported by rollers on the barge and stinger. |