Dent
Middle English (designating a blow with a weapon): variant of dint.
wiktionary
From Middle English dent, dente, dint(“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt(“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz(“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr(“dint”). More at dint.
French, from Latin dens, dentis, tooth. Doublet of tooth.
etymonline
dent (n.)
early 14c., "a strike or blow," dialectal variant of Middle English dint, dunt (see dint); sense of "indentation, hollow mark made by a blow or pressure" is by 1560s, apparently by influence of indent.
dent (v.)
"make a dent or small hollow in by a blow or pressure," late 14c., from dent (n.). Middle English had dinten, dunten "beat with blows" (mid-13c.), from the earlier form of the noun. Related: Dented; denting.
