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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pine-bender

(The). Sinis, the Corinthian robber; so called because he used to fasten his victims to two pinetrees bent towards the earth, and then leave them to be rent asunder by the rebound.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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