Word.ws English Dictionary

benday

benday verb: to use the Ben Day printing and photoengraving technique.

Verb

benday (third-person singular simple present bendays, present participle bendaying, simple past and past participle bendayed)

  1. (archaic) To use the Ben Day printing and photoengraving technique.
    • The artist then proceeds to work on the dyed print, performing any ruling, bendaying, lettering or whatever art work is necessary.1937, Joseph Stephen Mertle, Harry Keusch, Photolithography & Offset Printing: A Reference Manual of Modern Procedure, page 184

Forms of benday

third-person singular presentbendays
present participlebendaying
past participlebendayed
pastbendayed

Origin of benday

From Ben Day.

Questions about benday

What does benday mean?
Benday means to use the Ben Day printing and photoengraving technique.
What part of speech is benday?
Benday is a verb.
What is the past tense of benday?
The past tense of benday is bendayed.

Words near benday in the dictionary

  1. Bendamir
  2. bendamustine
  3. bendas
  4. Bendavid
  5. Bendavids
  6. benday
  7. bendayed
  8. bendaying
  9. bendays
  10. bendazac
  11. bendazolic acid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: benday (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “benday.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/benday. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.