dint

See also: di'n't

English

From Middle English dint, dent, dünt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). More at dent.

dint (countable and uncountable, plural dints)

(obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto I:
  Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xxxi:
  Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
Force, power; especially in by dint of.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
  
  O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity
- 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, XVIII:
  It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
- 1860, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine”, in Idylls of the King:
  and read the naked shield, […] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it
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a dent

dint (third-person singular simple present dints, present participle dinting, simple past and past participle dinted)

To dent
- 1915, Jeffery Farnol, Beltane The Smith‎:
  And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!
- 1854, W. Harrison Ainsworth, The Star-Chamber, Volume 2‎:
  Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.

dint

From Latin dēns, dentem. Compare Italian dente, Romansch dent, Venetian dénte, Romanian dinte, French dent, Spanish diente.

dint m (plural dinčh)

dint (plural dints)

dent
blow, stroke
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
  Ayein his dyntez sore ye may not yow defende.

dint f

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