The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dentation
Dentation \Den*ta"tion\, n. Formation of teeth; toothed form. [R.]
How did it [a bill] get its barb, its dentation?
--Paley.
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dentation
n. Formation of teeth; toothed form.
Usage examples of "dentation".
Holding it over the paper in such a way that in dentations produced shadow, she could just make out lines that had been written on the page above.