Definition of "prebend"

prebend¹

noun
plural prebends
1. (obsolete) A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2. (obsolete) The property or other source of this endowment.
  Quotations
  He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.
  1885, “Aldred (d.1069)”, in Leslie Stephen, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, William Hunt, Volume 1
3. Political patronage employment.
4. (obsolete) A prebendary.
  Quotations
  a lease of the prebend of Withington
  c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby

prebend²

verb
third-person singular simple present prebends, present participle prebending, simple past and past participle prebent
1. (transitive) To bend in advance.
  Quotations
  For large and/or dense bones compression plate fixation achieves absolute stability but the fragments have to be in contact remote to the plate by prebending the plate.
  2006, Michael Wagner, Robert Frigg, AO Manual of Fracture Management: Internal Fixators, page 14