The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indented \In*dent"ed\, a.
Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
--Milton. Shak.(Her.) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.
Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.
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(Zo["o]l.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.
Indented line (Fort.), a line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.
Usage examples of "indented line".
Then ahead in what looked like an unbroken but indented line of mangrove keys Gil, who had the glasses, said, “.
In the dimness of the airbus he didn't see the indented line that you press.
The light fell upon his upturned face, and I saw once more the hawk-like grace of his countenance, with the single deeply-indented line of care upon his brow, and the protruding beard which marks the passionate nature.
Down the indented line between her ribs and over the soft curve of her abdomen.
I flicked another look at him and snapped a mental photograph of his grizzled face, the scar on his chin, a deeply indented line of white that began with his lower lip and continued down along his neck.
She dragged her racquet along the wallpaper in the hall, leaving a long indented line.