Word Meaning

nick definition and meaning

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

Crossword clues for nick

- Faldo, the golfer
- Found in pumpernickel, though diabolical when old
- Notch
- Pilfer
- Pinch
- Shaving accident
- Small
- Small cut
- Small groove
- Small notche
- Steal a chip