1) Agency 2) Effort 3) Exertion 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Exclusively Saxon word 6) Force 7) Force or effort 8) Force or power 9) Force; power 10) Means 11) Power 12) Stroke 13) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 14) Word of purely Anglo origin 1) Concavity 2) Force 3) Impression 4) Power 
• (v. t.) To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent. • (n.) Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of. • (n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. • (n.) A blow; a stroke.
Dint noun [ Middle English dint , dent , dunt , a blow, Anglo-Saxon dynt ; akin to Icelandic dyntr a dint, dynta to dint, and perhaps to Latin fendere (in composition). Confer 1st Dent , Defend .] 1. A blow; a stroke. [ Obsolet...Dint transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dinted ; present participle & verbal noun Dinting .] To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent. Donne. Tennyson. 
[n] - interchangeable with `means` in the expression `by dint of`
noun interchangeable with `means` in the expression `by means of`
force; power: By dint of hard work she became head of the company. · a dent. · a blow; stroke.
[Intelligent words] force or effort