indented

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Indented ring shank nails, for example, hold stronger than smooth nails; four-sided roofs are most likely to stay on; and metal hurricane straps help keep roofs attached to walls.

From National Geographic • Feb. 5, 2024

This morning the winds set in foul for Indented Heads, and, having made several attempts to get out of the river, we gave it up as hopeless.

From A Source Book of Australian History by Swinburne, Gwendolen H.

A Deed Poll is plain at the top, and is so called to distinguish it from a Deed Indented, which is cut in and out at the top.

From Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

On April 30, 1802, the date of the sketch, Flinders was "nearly at the northern extremity of Indented Head" and took some bearings "from the brow of a hill a little way back."

From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest

Indented apprenticeships in this commonwealth are within the memory of all who are forty or fifty years of age.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah