dint
noun
[ dɪnt ]
• a dent or hollow in a surface.
• "the soft dints at the top of a coconut"
Similar:
dent,
indentation,
depression,
dip,
dimple,
cleft,
hollow,
crater,
pit,
notch,
nick,
chip,
mark,
cut,
gouge,
gash,
• a blow or stroke, typically one made with a weapon in fighting.
dint
verb
• mark (a surface) with dents or hollows.
• "the metal was dull and dinted"
Origin:
Old English dynt ‘stroke with a weapon’, reinforced in Middle English by the related Old Norse word dyntr ; of unknown ultimate origin. Compare with dent.
