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Bend city (1990 pop. 20,469), seat of Deschutes co., W central Oregon, on the Deschutes River, at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range; inc. 1904. Lumbering is the primary industry, and tourism is also important. Bend is the headquarters for Deschutes National Forest, which encompasses Newberry National Volcanic Monument.

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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Â© The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

bend v. attach (a sail or rope) by means of a knot: sailors were bending sails to the spars.
n. (the bends) decompression sickness, especially in divers.

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bend1 †ribbon, band OE.; (her.) ordinary formed by two parallel lines XV. OE. bend :- Gmc. *bandjō, f. *band- *bind- BIND; later coinciding with bende — OF. bende (mod. bande) BAND2. Cf. BAND1.

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