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Bender, a town in Bessarabia, remarkable for the siege which Charles XII. of Sweden sustained there after his defeat at Pultowa.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bender in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable