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verb

Tooth v. t. (past & past part. toothed; pres. part. toothing)

To furnish with teeth. "The twin cards toothed with glittering wire."

To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.

adjective

Toothed adj.

Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl."

(Bot. & Zool.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.

Toothed whale (Zool.), any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete.

Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel.

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Etymology of 'Toothed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Toothed" Quotes from Famous Books

... man, rapping the table with his hand. "That's very practical! It is time to stop their mouths, it was high time long ago! Particularly that Yozhov; he's like a sharp-toothed saw. Just put the thumb-screw on him! ...

— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky

... are boiled the answer is easy. All the Shrimps turn brown and the Prawns red. (The red "Shrimps" are near relations of the Prawn.) To tell a live Shrimp from a Prawn, look at the long pointed beak which juts out from the front of the head. That of the Prawn is toothed, like a little saw. If the beak is quite smooth its wearer ...

— On the Seashore • R. Cadwallader Smith

... should be very glad to do it, for he thought he could buy him some things that would help him very much in his work. Jonas carried the money into the city the next time he went, and bought him a small hone to sharpen his knife, a fine-toothed saw, and a bottle of black varnish, with a little brush, to put it on with. He brought these things home, and gave them to Georgie's father; and he carried them into the house, and put ...

— Rollo at Work • Jacob Abbott

... boulders grown with spruce and rhododendron: a veritable rose of Sharon blooming in the desert. The wastes of the Bernina stretch above, and round about are leaguered some of the most forbidding sharp-toothed peaks I ever saw. Onwards, across the silent snow, we glided in immitigable sunshine, through opening valleys and pine-woods, past the robber-huts of Pisciadella, until at evenfall we rested in the ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... Organ Mountain flung up a fantasy of spires, needle-sharp and bare and golden. The long straight range—saw-toothed limestone save for this twenty-mile sheer upheaval of the Organ—stretched away to north and south against the unclouded sky, till distance turned the barren gray to blue-black, to blue, to misty haze; till the sharp, square-angled masses rounded to ...

— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

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