Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Knocking; hitting; dinting; in ceramics, the cracking of ware entirely through, while it is being fired in the kiln.
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- verb Present participle of
dunt .
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Examples
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The silica is released in the form of cristobalite crystals which may cause dunting on fast cooling (see page 53).
Chapter 8 1990
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We were speedily together, the seven of us, and gathered in the hall, and listening with mouths open and hearts dunting, to the rapping that had no sign of ceasing.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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The window lay unguarded (all the inmates of the house being at the front), and we stepped in and found ourselves soon in a household vastly calm considering the rabble dunting on its doors.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Paymaster, every time he stepped through the close, from dunting with his cane on the stones with the insolence of a man whose birth and his father's acres gave him a place high above such as earned their living behind a counter.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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I quavered, and wondered if he heard my heart dunting against my ribs.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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His consternation, on finding it flee half open, may be easier imagined than described; especially, as on the door dunting to again, it being soople in the hinges, they both plainly heard a fistling within.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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His consternation, on finding it flee half open, may be easier imagined than described; especially, as on the door dunting to again, it being soople in the hinges, they both plainly heard a fistling within.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Now the hunters are upset they have not got a deer, so is dunting now moved to become a DNR program for hunters or has it worked so well that we have successfuly thined the herd?
unknown title 2009
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"You auld besom you!" said he, dunting the floor with his rattan, "I see through you now; you think you'll get him put off on me.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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