toothing
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English
Etymology
Noun
toothing (countable and uncountable, plural toothings)
- The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
- (construction) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order to be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.
- A hoax claim that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange random sexual encounters, perpetrated as a prank to "highlight how journalists are happy to believe something is true without necessarily checking the facts".
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Verb
toothing
- present participle and gerund of tooth
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “toothing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)