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tooths

tooths is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tooth.

Meaning of tooth

Verb

tooth (third-person singular simple present tooths, present participle toothing, simple past and past participle toothed)

  1. To provide or furnish with teeth.
    • His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […]1815, William Wordsworth, The Brothers
  2. To indent; to jag.
    • to tooth a saw
  3. To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
    • Whereas if the Header of one side of the wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing, and the joints of the Header on one side, would be in the middle of the Headers of the course they lie upon of the other side1678, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: or the Doctrine of Handy-works, page 260

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Phrases with tooths

Questions about tooths

What is tooths the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tooths is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tooth.

Words near tooths in the dictionary

  1. toothproof
  2. toothpuller
  3. toothpullers
  4. toothrow
  5. toothrows
  6. tooths
  7. toothshell
  8. toothshells
  9. toothsome
  10. toothsomely
  11. toothsomeness

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