NOTCHED • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Notched

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/nɑtʃt/ Listen

verb

Notch v. t. (past & past part. notched; pres. part. notching)

To cut or make notches in; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.

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."

See images of 'Notched'

Etymology of 'Notched'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Notched" Quotes from Famous Books

... recently arrived, could not be expected to know where to supply myself. Said he would send me the address of his hatter. Then he said, "Pardon me," and proceeded to cut a neat circle of red tissue paper; daintily notched the edges of it; took the mucilage and pasted it in my hat so as to cover the manufacturer's name. He said, "No one will know now where you got it. I will send you a hat-tip of my hatter, and you can paste it over ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... fires,—or the demesne Of ever mystic sleep. Mists intervene, Which then would melt, to show our eyesight bold From God a perfect chain throughout the skies, Like Jacob's ladder light with winged men. And as this world, all notched to terrene eyes With Alpine ranges, smoothes to higher ken, So death and sin and social miseries; By God fixed as His bow o'er moor ...

— The Germ - Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art • Various

... philology can tell about it. A term frequently encountered in law is indenture—a certain form of contract. Philological researches have uncovered an interesting history regarding this word. It seems that in olden days when two persons made an agreement they wrote it on two pieces of paper, then notched the edges so that when placed together, the notches on the edge of one paper would just match those of the other. This protected both parties against substitution of a fraudulent contract ...

— How to Use Your Mind • Harry D. Kitson

... men passed him, talking in loud voices and craning their necks here and there in fatuous supercilious glances. They were dressed in suits of the exaggerated tightness then semi-fashionable; their turned over collars were notched at the Adam's apple; they wore gray spats and carried gray gloves on their ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... of this type (see Fig. 54) consist of one or more revolving shafts on which are arranged a number of concave disks. These disks are either entire, notched, or made of several pieces fastened together. Examples of these are the disk, cutaway and spading harrows. These harrows cut and move the soil deeper than the other types. They are especially adapted to work on ...

— The First Book of Farming • Charles L. Goodrich

More quotes...