Dint Definition
dĭnt
dints
noun
Force; exertion.
Webster's New World
A dent.
Webster's New World
A blow.
Webster's New World
1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xxxi.
Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wroughtTo cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart,
From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new,
Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
Wiktionary
The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
Wiktionary
contraction
Eye dialect spelling of didn’t.
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Other Word Forms of Dint
Noun
Singular:
dint
Plural:
dintsOrigin of Dint
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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.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English dent1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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