Indenture

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

2. A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master. The law is the best expositor of the gospel; they are like a pair of indentures: they answer in every part. C. Leslie.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow. Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow. Woty.

2. To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent. Heywood.