indented

To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth

“to indent the edge of paper”

To be cut, notched, or dented.

To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress

“indent a smooth surface with a hammer”

To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.

To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.

To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.

“to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant”

To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.

“to indent the first line of a paragraph one em”

To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.

Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.

“a heavily indented coastline”

Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.

“an indented border or ordinary”

Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.

“an indented servant”

Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.