indent
/ˈɪndɛnt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.44 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A stamp; an impression.
noun
A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
noun
A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
Example Sentences
- "to indent the edge of paper"
- "indent a smooth surface with a hammer"
- "to indent wax with a stamp"
- "The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland."
- "And is this now the Person who is to oblige his Maker? to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty?"
- "1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. xlii-xliii, […] he accidentally met with the commander of a trading vessel bound to Barbadoes, and being actuated by an adventurous spirit, [he] bargained for a passage by indenting himself to serve a planter for four years after his arrival in that island."
Etymology
Partly from Middle English indenten (“to dent in”), equivalent to in- + dent (see dent); partly from Middle English indenten, endenten, from Old French endenter (“to cut notches into”), from en- (“in-, en-”) + dent (“tooth”), from Latin dēns.