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Making a mark of a sort
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notching
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Notch \Notch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Notched (n[o^]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Notching .] To cut or make notches in; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick. To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string. God is all sufferance; here he doth show ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Notching is a metal-cutting process used on sheetmetal or thin barstock, sometimes on angle sections or tube. A shearing or punching process is used in a press, so as to cut vertically down and perpendicular to the surface, working from the edge of a workpiece. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A notched mark or pattern. vb. (present participle of notch English)
Usage examples of notching.
The lingering afterglow lit a band of citrine above the cut-sable folds of the hills notching the western horizon.
It was soon discovered, however, that the pocket knives were insufficient for this purpose, but by dint of notching the young saplings and then breaking them down, they succeeded, in a couple of hours, in collecting wood enough to roof over a space between the hollow rock which contained the provisions and another rock, in shape like a hammer, which jutted out within five yards of it.
Knox, who had been sent in first on the previous evening to play out the twenty minutes that remained before the drawing of stumps, had succumbed to a combination of fading light and one of Hirst's swervers in the last over on Friday, the Gentlemen, with five wickets in hand, were faced with the task of notching two hundred and four runs in order to secure the victory.
The ax was simply used for swamping, notching, limbing, and of course splitting.
He went to work shaping his weapon, notching the bow nocks, skinning down the hunk of vine.
He sharpened the three piles and then began notching the string nocks at the other ends.