Record-keeping cuts

Usage examples of notches.

He sat down in the open hold between two huge amphorae of wine, and set one of the weather cloths, a frame of woven matting, upright in its notches in the gunwale.

And these small notches, they are when he has beaten me--yes, and other things too.

And now I will make more notches, one for the house that is burnt, and one for the old Baas Croft, my own Baas, whom he is going to shoot, and one for Missie Bessie.

I will kill him to-night, and then I can cut out the notches, and the spooks of my father and my mother and my uncle will stop howling round me in the dark as they do now, when I am asleep.

It was a round little hole with notches that hopefully matched the teeth on the round little key.

She fitted her hands into the notches, but there were too many marks, too many days had passed.

Ayla gathered up her marked sticks and noticed a regularity in the number of marks between the extra notches that she made when her spirit battled and she bled.

She could hardly wait for spring with its first greens, new buds, and the sweet maple sap that rose and oozed out of notches cut into the bark.

She remembered a time long before when Creb showed her how to make notches on a stick.

Once, out of curiosity, she decided to keep track of something like he did, and since the moon moved through repetitive cycles, she decided it would be fun to see how many notches it would take to complete one cycle.

It was an old-fashioned straight instrument of wood with a thick stem, decorated by a row of notches cut down each quadrant.

Then I saw his stethoscope with rows of notches on the stem, and again there was a perfect explanation.

Ellis, and more particularly of a catapult I had as a boy and the notches I cut in the handle for every bird I killed.