DENT

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] "That dent of thunder." Chaucer.

2.
n.

A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation. A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter. De Quincey.

3.
v.

To make a dent upon; to indent. The houses dented with bullets. Macaulay.

4.
n.

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.

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