prebend

noun

1. (obsolete)A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
2. (obsolete)The property or other source of this endowment.

   “He is said to have added prebends to Southwell; it is more probable that he gave estates to the church which were afterwards made into separate prebends.”

3. Political patronage employment.
4. (obsolete)A prebendary.

   “c. 1593, Francis Bacon, letter to Sir Thomas Coneysby a lease of the prebend of Withington”

verb

1. (transitive)To bend in advance.

   “For large and/or dense bones compression plate fixation achieves absolute stability but the fragments have to be in contact remote to the plate by prebending the plate.”