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.
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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.
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