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Meaning of 'nick' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Nick [ n.]
- An evil spirit of the waters.
- A notch cut into something
- A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
- A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
- A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
- A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
2 . Nick [ v. t.]
- To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
- To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
- To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
- To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
- 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).
- To nickname; to style.

Meaning of 'nick' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . nick [ n]
Meaning (1):
- (British slang) a prison
Example in sentence:
  • he's in the nick
2 . nick [ v]
Meaning (2):
- divide or reset the tail muscles of
Example in sentence:
  • nick horses
Meaning (3):
- cut slightly, with a razor
Example in sentence:
  • The barber's knife nicked his cheek

Nearby Words:

nicagua nicaragua wood niccolite nice nicely nicene niceness nicery niceties nicety

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