Toothed
[tuːθt] or [tʊðd]
Definition
(adj.) having teeth especially of a certain number or type; often used in combination; 'saw-toothed' .
Typist: Willie--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Tooth
(a.) Having teeth; furnished with teeth.
(a.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.
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Examples
- When thoroughly dry it is grained with a toothed instrument on the flesh side and bruised on the grain or hair side for the purpose of softening the leather. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The engine here employed was the Catch Me Who Can, and had a vertical cylinder and piston, without the toothed gear wheels shown in the illustration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There were also wild horses, and the sabre-toothed tiger still abounded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It may be that the early sub-man sometimes played jackal to the sabre-toothed tiger, and finished up the bodies on which the latter had gorged itself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sabre-toothed tiger was diminishing towards extinction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If a toothed wheel is mounted and slowly rotated, and a stiff card is held against the teeth of the wheel, a distinct tap is heard every time the card strikes the wheel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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