Dint vs Daint - What's the difference?

dint | daint |

As a noun dint

is (label) a blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.

As a verb dint

is to dent.

As a contraction dint

is .

As an adjective daint is

(obsolete) dainty.

As an adverb daint is

(geordie) do not, don't.

dint

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dint, dent, . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(label) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.

*, I.i:

*:Much daunted with that dint , her sence was dazd.

* 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), 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).

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity.

*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:It 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.

* (1809-1892)

*:every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]

:(Dryden)

Derived terms

* by dint of

Verb

(en verb)

To dent

* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Jeffery Farnol, title=Beltane The Smith, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God! }}

* {{quote-book, year=1854, author=W. Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Star-Chamber, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. }}

Etymology 2

Contraction

(head)

Anagrams

* ----

daint

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Dainty.

* 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:

to cherish him with diets daint , / She cast to bring him, where he chearen might [...].

Adverb

(-)

(Geordie) do not, don't

(West Midlands) didn't

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