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Notch   /nɑtʃ/   Listen
noun
Notch  n.  
1.
A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. "And on the stick ten equal notches makes."
2.
A narrow passage between two elevations; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.


verb
Notch  v. t.  (past & past part. notched; pres. part. notching)  
1.
To cut or make notches in; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.
2.
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."





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"Notch" Quotes from Famous Books



... the last time these celebrated clubs met, the Carlton men succeeded in scoring one notch more than their rivals; who, however, immediately challenged them to a return match, and have been diligently practising for success ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... thought. All of you haven't a single thought for the past, for the untold billions who led the bad life as mankind slowly built up the good life for you to lead. Do you ever think of all the people who suffered and died in misery and superstition while civilization was clicking forward one more slow notch?" ...
— Planet of the Damned • Harry Harrison
... demanded with unutterable scorn, wiping his face. "Quicksilver's been solid for hours, and it's been gittin' colder an' colder ever since. Fifty? I'll bet my new mittens against your old moccasins that it ain't a notch ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London
... State chairman, "you can certainly take rank, at your time of life and after all you've been through, as a top-notch hell of a politician. You start out to run a State campaign, and you wind up by not being able to run ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day
... him not a little. Spring nor notch, nor any other means of attachment between the two halves of the animal, could he find. But at length he noted that the tail had slipped a little way out, and was loose; and experimenting with it, by and by discovered ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald


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