Dint

n.	1.	A blow; a stroke.
	2.	The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. - Tennyson.
	3.	Force; power; - esp. in the phrase by dint of. Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity. - Shak. It was by dint of passing strength That he moved the massy stone at length. - Sir W. Scott.
v. t.	1.	To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent. [imp. & p. p. Dinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dinting.]

Noun

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dint - interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by dint of'

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