Definition of "bende" [bende]

• A variety of the abelmoschus, used in cookery. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Daardeur sal misdadigers en bende-lede duidelik die gesamentlike boodskap kan hoor dat daar geen plek vir hulle in die Paarl is nie."
• "And in this quick-thinking way I must have waved my knife too close to her nose because she cried angrily, “Shemma bende ren!” —"
• "He bar a bende bowe in his hand, was made off trusti tre."