Dint vs Dit - What's the difference?
dint | dit |
(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)
To dent
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Jeffery Farnol, title=Beltane The Smith, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, passage=Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. }}
To stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots dit.
(archaic, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
(obsolete) A word; a decree.
As verbs the difference between dint and dit
is that dint is to dent while dit is (d) to happen.As a noun dint
is (label) a blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.As a contraction dint
is .dint
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dint, dent, . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
Derived terms
* by dint ofVerb
(en verb)citation
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Etymology 2
Contraction
(head)Anagrams
* ----dit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ditten, .Verb
Etymology 2
Variant of dite.Noun
(en noun)- No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing; / No song but did containe a louely dit : / Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit [...].