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The Meaning of nick
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(n.) An evil spirit of the waters.
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(n.) A notch cut into something
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(n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
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(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.
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(n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
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(n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
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(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.
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(v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
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(v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
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(v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
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(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).
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(v. t.) To nickname; to style.
Synonyms
dent
,
gouge
,
slit
,
incision
,
ding
,
prick
,
snick
,
scratch
,
notch
,
pass
,
mountain pass
,
chip
,
knap
,
come off
,
break off
,
cut off
,
chip off
,
break away
,
cut
Homophones
knick
,
nic
,
nik
Rhymes
afflik
,
arithmetic
,
bailiwick
,
bic
,
bick
,
blick
,
bolshevik
,
bric
,
brick
,
broomstick
,
bryk
,
candlestick
,
chick
,
chopstick
,
click
,
crick
,
cwik
,
dic
,
dick
,
dipstick
,
dyk
,
dzik
,
fenwick
,
fick
,
ficke
,
firebrick
,
flick
,
frick
,
fricke
,
gick
,
glick
,
handpick
,
hick
,
homesick
,
impolitic
,
joystick
,
kick
,
knick
,
krick
,
kubrick
,
kwik
,
lick
,
lipstick
,
lunatic
,
mc
,
mic
,
mick
,
micke
,
nic
,
nightstick
,
nik
,
nonstick
,
ostpolitik
,
pic
,
pick
,
pickwick
,
picnic
,
pik
,
politic
,
prick
,
quick
,
quik
,
realpolitik
,
ric
,
rick
,
ricke
,
rilke
,
schick
,
schlick
,
schrick
,
schtick
,
seasick
,
shick
,
shtick
,
sic
,
sick
,
sidekick
,
slapstick
,
slick
,
smick
,
snick
,
spic
,
spick
,
stick
,
strick
,
swick
,
thick
,
tic
,
tick
,
toothpick
,
trick
,
vandyck
,
vanwyck
,
vanwyk
,
vic
,
vick
,
vik
,
wick
,
wik
,
wrick
,
wyk
,
yardstick
,
zick
,
zwick