Middle English Dictionary Entry
dentinge ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | dentinge ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Indenting, mortising; a mortise.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)250a/b : Hewynge, dentynge, and planynge, þat suche tables..may be euene and wele y ioyned.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ex.26.17 : Twei dentyngis [L incastraturæ] schulen be in the sidis of a table, bi which a table schal be ioyned to another table.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. denting.