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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dent \Dent\, n. [A variant of {Dint}.]
1. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] ``That dent of thunder.''
--Chaucer.
2. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dent \Dent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dented}; p. pr & vb n.
{Denting}.]
To make a dent upon to indent.
The houses dented with bullets. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dent \Dent\, n. [F., fr L. dens, dentis, tooth. See {Tooth}.]
(Mach.)
A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc --Knight.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dent
n 1: an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening); "it
made a dent in my bank account"
2: a depression scratched or carved into a surface [syn: {incision},
{scratch}, {notch}, {prick}, {slit}]
3: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn: {gouge},
{nick}]
v : make a dent into [syn: {indent}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Dent, MN (city, FIPS 15724)
Location: 46.55212 N, 95.71716 W
Population (1990): 177 (79 housing units)
Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 56528
Dent, OH (CDP, FIPS 21742)
Location: 39.19375 N, 84.66091 W
Population (1990): 6416 (2602 housing units)
Area: 15.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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