indentation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INDENTA'TION INDENT'ED, participle passive Cut in the edge into points, like teeth. 1. Bound out by indented writings; as an indented apprentice or servant. 2. Bound out by writings, or covenants in writing. [The practice of indenting writings is in some places discontinued, but the term remains in use.]
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