Finished, Tanu straightened the bindings and touched bent branches, like a fussy mother tugging the collar of her son's shirt.

The bent branch recoiled, and the man flew upward into the air, propelled by the springy wood, so that he soared briefly like a bird.

To saw through a spring pole, make a partial cut first on the inside of the bent branch and then cut opposite it on the outside.

See the bent branches and newly fallen leaves?

Essentially it is a bow, a bent branch of chestnut with a string made of metal wire.

He climbed out and proceeded to cover the vehicle with bent and broken branches.

Then he returned to the bent branches where he had figured thirty paces to be and began the lateral trek Again nothing.

He went back to the bent branches and proceeded to his second mark.

Crooked Billet (a bent branch from a tree)

Then it was my eye caught something--a little thing lying, perhaps fifty yards away down the slope, amidst a litter of bent and broken branches.