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Whether it be messenger types running the maze of "cagers" and "flesh pylons;" over-trained tri-dorks turning every workplace conversation into a competitive dick-swing or bearded, chemical engineer recumbo-commuters who are naive enough to think that what we mean by calling them "bents" is short for recumbent as they use the term, cyclists of all sorts have pissed away whatever sympathies they may actually deserve.

Perception: Enlightenment or Madness? BikeSnobNYC 2009

When ready, the building is put together in what is called bents, each bent consisting of two posts, one on each side of the building, connected together by a strong beam running across the building.

Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) Samuel Strickland 1835

They were each from sixty to seventy-five feet high and about seven hundred feet in length, and constructed entirely of wooden beams, or "bents," superimposed one upon another until the required height was

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

Then she came into view through an opening between two "bents" of timber, beyond a heap of rubbish that had been thrown at one side of the track.

Calumet "K" Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

The "bents" were the cross sections of heavy square timbers which, fastened together with cross ties, formed the framework of the barn.

The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies Ralph Connor 1898

My next recollection is the raising of a frame barn behind the house, and of a niece of my father's holding me in her arms to see the men pushing up the heavy "bents" with long poles.

Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Canniff Haight 1863

It will be a decade before their long-term vision becomes apparent to passing motorists, but the wild flower meadows are an advertisement that change is afoot, improving biodiversity and welcoming visitors, enticing them through the gates and along broad rides mown through the fescues, bents and crested dog's tail grasses that will replace the crops until tree saplings take root and a leaf canopy develops.

Country diary: Low Burnhall, Durham 2011

A race between Mr. Rothman and Mr. Garrett in New Jersey's would represent a fight between men of two very different political bents.

Stage Set in N.J. for 'Nasty' Battle Heather Haddon 2011

Not the dew-spangled bents on the wide level Dale,

Letter 20 2009

He puts forth all the foundations for his sources 'opinions and meticulously unpacks their political bents and reasoning.

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick 2010