bander

From band +‎ -er.

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bander (plural banders)

1. (birdwatching) Someone who bands birds.

   Synonym: birdbander

   • 1993 November 26, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     He got a banding permit in the early 30s and was an active bander for the rest of his life.

2. A device for putting metal bands around crates.
   • 2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 75:

     The metal banding he was currently winding round a loaded pallet twisted and snapped like a splinter of wood. He took a deep breath, removed the mangled end from the bander, and started over.

• Braden, Berdan, debran, Benard, barned, Redban, Bednar, Brenda, Barden, reband

Inherited from Middle French bander, from Old French bander, bender, from Frankish *bandijan, from Proto-Germanic *bandijaną. Cognate with English bend.

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.de/

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bander

1. (transitive) to bandage
2. (transitive) to flex, tighten the muscles, strain, tauten
3. (intransitive, colloquial) to have a hard-on, to get a hard-on

   Je bande pour toi.

   I’ve got a hard-on for you.

   • 1972, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “Fernande”, in Fernande:

     Quand je pense à Fernande / Je bande, je bande

     When I think of Fernande / I get hard, I get hard

   • 1981, “Être une femme”, performed by Michel Sardou:

     Maîtriser à fond le système / Accéder au pouvoir suprême / S’installer à la Présidence / Et de là faire bander la France

     Completely controlling the system / Achieving supreme power / Installing myself as president / And giving all of France a hard-on

• “bander”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.