indenting

Verb

indent (third-person singular simple present indents, present participle indenting, simple past and past participle indented)

1. (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
   • to indent the edge of paper
2. (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
3. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
   • indent a smooth surface with a hammer
4. (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
5. (intransitive, obsolete, reflexive) To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
   • The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland., New York, 2001, p.91
6. (obsolete, transitive) To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
   • to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant

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