Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Toothing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Toothing \Tooth"ing\, n.
1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

2. (Masonry) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a
wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation
of it when the remainder is carried up.

{Toothing plane}, a plane of which the iron is formed into a
series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening
surfaces, as of veneers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tooth \Tooth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toothed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Toothing}.]
1. To furnish with teeth.

The twin cards toothed with glittering wire.
--Wordsworth.

2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

3. To lock into each other. See {Tooth}, n., 4. --Moxon.


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