\Dent\, n. [A variant of {Dint}.]
1. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.] ``That dent of thunder.''
   --Chaucer.
2. A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a
   blow or by pressure; an indentation.
         A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of
         butter.                               --De Quincey.

\Dent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dented}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Denting}.]
To make a dent upon; to indent.
      The houses dented with bullets.          --Macaulay.

\Dent\, n. [F., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth. See {Tooth}.]
(Mach.)
A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. --Knight.