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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Nick \Nick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nicked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nicking}.] 1. To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc. 2. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in. And thence proceed to nicking sashes. --Prior. The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. --Shak. 3. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with. Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations. --Camden. 4. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time. The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. --L'Estrange. 5. To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher). | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Nicking \Nick"ing\, n. [From {Nick}, v. t.] (Coal Mining) (a) The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face. (b) pl. Small coal produced in making the nicking. | |
