Fisherfolk utilize barbed hooks, which are bent, angled; therefore, they are also called anglers.
Another bent thing is an arrow; well… only an improperly made one. Not the missile but its arched trajectory. Though, the “bend, angle” of the word arrow is not for its flightpath but its companion bow, which is also bent, curved.
There is a bow within your elbow, which is the bending joint of your arm.
We may become a bow (long o) when we bow (short o), thusly bending our backs. A bog bends when you walked upon its swamped, buoyant, vegetal carpet, bringing us close to the proto-Indo-European root for all this bending and angularity, bheug, which can also be spied in bagel (bent bread) and buxom (bendable).

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