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S-bend en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. An S-shaped bend, usually the bend in a waste pipe, or in a road.
    • The line to Uganda goes up the side of a slope in a series of S-bends, and as the telegraph wires follow the line, from below they look like a forest as they thread backwards and forwards about six times. 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266:

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