Dint

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

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.

Alternative forms

• dunt

Full definition of dint

Noun

1. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.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.
• ShakespeareNow you weep; and, I perceive, you feel
  The dint of pity.
• Sir Walter ScottIt 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.
• Tennysonevery dint a sword had beaten in it shield

Derived terms

• by dint of

Verb

1. To dent
• 1915, Jeffery Farnol, Beltane The Smith Chapter , 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 Chapter , Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.

Contraction

contraction

1. Eye dialect of didn't

Anagrams

• NDTI, tind