Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo strike; give a blow to; knock.
From Middle English dunt, dynt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe, thud, the mark or noise of a blow, a bruise, noise, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *dunti, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“shock, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt (“stroke”). Doublet of dent and dint.
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