Associations to the word «Dint»

Wiktionary

DINT, noun. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
DINT, noun. Force, power; especially in by dint of.
DINT, noun. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
DINT, verb. To dent

Dictionary definition

DINT, noun. Interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope