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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
- Force, power; especially in by dint of.
- The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
Verb
- To dent
Exempel
- Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd.
- 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.
- Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity.
- It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
- every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]
- And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!
- Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.
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