Toothing

Tooth·ing

Toothing

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. (Masonry)

Phrases & Compounds
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.