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Peen :: Peen (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation..

Pit :: Pit (n.) A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation.

Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems..

Dint :: Dint (n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll..

Crenel :: Crenel (n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The act of indenting or state of being indented.

Dibble :: Dibble (v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble..

Crenelation :: Crenelation (n.) The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure..

Bay :: Bay (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

Graining :: Graining (n.) Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins..

Engrailment :: Engrailment (n.) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary..

Centre :: Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice..

Catenulate :: Catenulate (a.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc..

Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..

Print :: Print (n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow..

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Dimple :: Dimple (n.) A slight indentation on any surface.

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