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noun

Dent n.

A stroke; a blow. (Obs.) "That dent of thunder."

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."

Dent n. (Mach.) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.

verb

Dent v. t. (past & past part. dented; pres. part. denting) To make a dent upon; to indent. "The houses dented with bullets."

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Etymology of 'Dent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dent" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the second dart struck the edge of the cliff, bored through the loose soil, and thumped our lower shield with a dull thud that lifted us from the ground. But the point and edges of the dart were blunted, and crumbled with the blow, and I could find no dent in the shield. ...

— Pharaoh's Broker - Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner • Ellsworth Douglass

... time in her life she was to have a taste of it. Miss Travis Dent had invited her to spend a month with her at Wicklett Springs, a fashionable summer resort, in a house full of interesting people, whose sayings and doings were already familiar to her through the society columns of the daily papers. She was to be Travis's guest. The rest of it, the railroad ...

— Cicely and Other Stories • Annie Fellows Johnston

... Every feather on its body was true to life, every spot on its tail a microscopic wonder. The beast (or the creeping thing, if you so prefer to name it) twined round one of his lower limbs, leaving the dent of its claws in the flesh, and resting its squat, outstretched head on the centre of the knee-cap. And so cunningly was the creature perched (as its owner gleefully pointed out) that the least movement of his crural muscles set the jagged backbone a-quivering, ...

— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

... your father's and Dent's pardon," said Mr Mackay, laughing at my firing up so quickly. "I was only joking; for your watch is a very good one, and nicely finished too. But I must not stop any more now. I hope you won't forget your first lesson in navigation and the knowledge you've ...

— Afloat at Last - A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson

... while our noble king, His broadsword brandishing, Down the French host did ding,[11] As to o'erwhelm it; And many a deep wound lent, His arms with blood besprent, And many a cruel dent Bruised his helmet. ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester

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