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Definition of Nicking
1. n. The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face.
Definition of Nicking
1. Verb. (present participle of nick) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nicking
1. nick [v] - See also: nick
Medical Definition of Nicking
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicking
Literary usage of Nicking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shoe Industry by Frederick James Allen (1922)
"The skived edges are .covered with a coating of cement, and placed in a machine
which folds and presses them at the same time. nicking. ..."
2. The Modern Horse Doctor: Containing Practical Observations on the Causes by George H. Dadd (1856)
"nicking. nicking is another fashionable barbarism that very few horses escape.
The world of horsemen have decided, no tail no horse ; and if an animal does ..."
3. Youatt on the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse with Their Remedies by William Youatt, William Charles Spooner, Henry Stephens Randall (1857)
"A very profuse bleeding will alone justify any tightness of bandage, and the ill
consequences that have resulted from nicking are mainly attributable to the ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1826)
"The operations of castration, docking, nicking, and that of cropping (which is now
... Castration, nicking^ Docking? ..."
5. Laboratory Experiments in Metallurgy by Albert Sauveur, Herbert Melville Boylston (1908)
"nicking. — Each squad of two students will cut a bar of steel 6 inches long from
... Method of nicking Bon. Procedure. — The nicked end of the bar should be ..."
6. The Modern Horse Doctor: Containing Practical Observations on the Causes by George H. Dadd (1854)
"nicking. nicking is another fashionable barbarism that very few horses escape.
The world of horsemen have decided, no tail no horse ; and if an animal does ..."
7. Coal Mining Described and Illustrated by Thomas H. Walton (1885)
"shows the miner at work, nicking his jud, preparing it for the * THE ... He terms
the operation nicking his jud. A pick is a tool despised by a number of ..."
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