dinting

Mrs. Tetterby, at the same time, laid the cloth, but rather as if she were punishing the table than preparing the family supper; hitting it unnecessarily hard with the knives and forks, slapping it with the plates, dinting it with the salt – cellar, and coming heavily down upon it with the loaf.

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 2007

As he watched, astonished, another shaft struck the charioteer's rigid body from the opposite direction; it had sufficient force to pass through both breastplate and breast, dinting Swinn's scapular plate outward with its point.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

As he watched, astonished, another shaft struck the charioteer's rigid body from the opposite direction; it had sufficient force to pass through both breastplate and breast, dinting Swinn's scapular plate outward with its point.

Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

The tension of the curious interview was relieved, for Polson, who had slowly paced the circular path which ran round the cemetery, came limping back again, dinting the wet gravel with the crutch-headed stick and leaning on it like a man who had achieved a forced march of many miles.

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

"No cheer," he answered, gloomily, dinting his finger-nails into his palm.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

And as she backed under the imperative command of the traffic officer, one rear hub clinked against the hind fender of the other, jarring both cars a little, dinting the gray one's fender, marring the glossy finish.

Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Half the stones of the borgo went after that cavalcade, and fell in a persistent shower upon them, rattling like giant hail upon their armour, dinting many a steel-cap to its wearer's sore discomfort.

Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

Everybody naturally expected _Ogmund_ to dint back; but he was something of a conscientious objector in the matter of face-to-face dinting, and being too proud for vulgar conflict he bided his time till he could cut _Halward_'s throat with the minimum of personal inconvenience.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 Various 1898

Pens fashioned of coral (her nails), that, dinting the book of her breast Five lines, scored in ambergris ink, on a table of crystal drew,

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

I'm for ever and the day after plagued wi 'them, and I do wish those lads' ud make theirselves a bit useful and catch 'em, instead o 'dinting in black jacks.

It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864