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Notch   /nɑtʃ/   Listen
Notch

noun
1.
A V-shaped indentation.
2.
The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks.  Synonyms: mountain pass, pass.
3.
A V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface.
4.
A small cut.  Synonyms: nick, snick.
verb
(past & past part. notched; pres. part. notching)
1.
Cut or make a notch into.
2.
Notch a surface to record something.



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"Notch" Quotes from Famous Books



... fiends ravenous for his blood. For a moment the temptation was strong in him to follow Roberts into the water. Why should he stay to let these devils torture him? Dinsmore had betrayed him, to the ruination of his life. He owed the fellow nothing but ill-will. And the man was a triple-notch murderer. It would be a good riddance to the country if he should ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... rested the barrel of his six-shooter on his knee. He centered on the pass. A few seconds—and a big ram, several feet ahead of the others, dashed into the notch. Pete grasped his gun with both hands and fired. The ram reared and dropped just within the rocky gateway. Pete saw another sheep jump over the ram and disappear. Pete centered on the notch again and as the gray mass bunched and crowded together to get through, he fired. Another ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... Between himself and its slender birches lay piled amidst the parched and dusty grass, and the first courses of a wooden building, rank with the smell of sappy timber, already stood in front of him. There was no notch in the framing that had not been made and pinned with an exact precision. In its scanty shadow his daughter sat knitting beside a smouldering fire over which somebody had suspended a big blackened kettle. The crash of the last falling trunk had died away, and there was ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... power, where civilization made itself before his very eyes! When would he think it fine enough to come in and go to work? Come in, and take his part in making civilization? Then she noticed the bending figure of the keeper opening the notch of the furnace; instantly there was a roar of sparks, and a blinding white gush of molten iron flowing like water down into the sand runner. The sudden, fierce illumination drowned the stars overhead, and brought ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... distended from an over-secretion of milk; this is relieved by saline cathartics, by abstinence from liquids, and by the use of a compression breast bandage. This is made of a straight piece of muslin, with a shallow notch cut in one edge for the neck, and, a deep one for each arm; the bandage is closely applied over the breasts, and the ends pinned in front; it is also pinned ...
— The Four Epochs of Woman's Life • Anna M. Galbraith


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