dented

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Just across the Scioto is Alexandria, and on the Kentucky side of the Ohio can be seen the white hamlet of Springville, at the feet of the dentated hills which here closely approach the river.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

This is a small-growing shrub, with lanceolate and pointed leaves, that are remotely dentated.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan

The outer portion is thus a thick ridge, dentated, or cut out into cogs or calks, allowing the nail-heads to be countersunk.

From Rational Horse-Shoeing by Russell, John E.

The upper ones have their costa blackish, and a triangular border at their extremity rather dentated on the inside.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker

A dentated weapon for striking and holding eels.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir