Toothing

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

2. Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening surfaces, as of veneers.