S-bend
noun
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Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
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