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Vint vs Dint - What's the difference?

vint | dint |

As verbs the difference between vint and dint

is that vint is to make wine from fruit while dint is to dent.

As nouns the difference between vint and dint

is that vint is a russian card game similar to bridge and whist while dint is (label) a blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.

As a contraction dint is

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vint

English

Etymology 1

Ultimately from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • to make wine from fruit

    • See also

    * * distill (wikipedia vint)

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (-)
  • a Russian card game similar to bridge and whist

    • Synonyms

    * Russian whist ----

    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

    * ----