bentwood
noun/ˈbɛntwʊd/US
Etymology
Definitions
Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the…
Lengths of wood that have been made pliable by heating with steam and then bent into the appropriate shape (to make furniture, ships' hulls, etc.).
- Bentwood furniture is made by bending and nailing long, straight, fresh branches or suckers of trees around a frame. Unlike most stick work, bentwood furniture is carefully planned before it is made.
An object, especially a piece of furniture, made from bentwood.
- The two basic types of fishhooks are almost equally represented within the site, with composite fishhooks exhibiting only a slightly higher relative frequency than that of bentwoods.
- She started walking over to the trestle table and, about ten years later, sat down on one of the thirty-three bentwoods.
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No curated loop yet for bentwood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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