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a dent that got a job title and a whole idiom to itself.
means a small hollow made by a blow or pressure, or, in the phrase by dint of, the force or means by which something is achieved.
from from old english dynt, meaning a blow or stroke, originally the strike itself rather than the mark it left; over centuries the word for the hit quietly became the word for the hollow the hit leaves behind.
original meaninga blow, not a mark, originally
surviving fossilalmost only lives in by dint of
cousin worddent is dint's french-filtered twin
military echoold norse dyntr meant a stroke or blow