Crossword clues for notching
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Notching \Notch"ing\, n.
The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.
The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches.
(Carp.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.
(Engin.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting.
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.
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To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.
God is all sufferance; here he doth show No arrow notched, only a stringless bow.
--Herrick.
Wiktionary
n. A notched mark or pattern. vb. (present participle of notch English)
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. Sometimes the goal is merely the notch itself, but usually this is a precursor to some other process: such as bending a corner in sheet or joining two tubes at a tee joint, notching one to fit closely to the other.
Notching is a low-cost process, particularly for its low tooling costs with a small range of standard punches. The capital cost of the punch press can be expensive though, so small fabrication shops often out-source their notching work to a press shop or notching specialist. Notching of large or heavy sections, particularly for large tube fabrication or HVAC, is increasingly carried out by plasma cutting rather than punch tools.
The accuracy of punch notching is good, depending on the care with which it's carried out. For manual folding work, prior notching can often improve resultant accuracy of the folding itself.
The speed of notching is usually limited by manual handling when loading the workpieces into the press. Pieces some feet long may be manually loaded into a single-stroke press. Smaller pieces are still generally hand-fed, limiting speeds to perhaps 100 strokes / minute.
Almost any workable metal can be notched. It's particularly suitable where the metal is otherwise awkward to drill, such as stainless steels, titanium or previously heat-treated aluminium alloys. It is an operation of removing a small part of metal sheet of desired shape from edge of metal sheet
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.