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Definition of Notched

1. Adjective. Notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex.

2. Adjective. Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed.

Definition of Notched

1. Verb. (past of notch) ¹

2. Adjective. Having notches; toothed; serrated; jagged; erose. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Notched

1. notch [v] - See also: notch

Medical Definition of Notched

1. Having a broad, shallow notch at the top. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Notched

notations notator notators notch notch for round ligament of liver notch in one's bedpost notch of apex of heart notch of tentorium notch on the bedpost notch up

notchback notchbacks notchboard notchboards notched (current term) notchel notchels notcher notchers notches

notches in cartilage of external acoustic meatus notchier notchiest notching notchings notchweeds notchy

Literary usage of Notched

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"The claim of the patent is as follows: " The lock- case made with the notched sides aa near its ends to receive and hold the handle-rings R, ..."

2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1899)
"... first pair either broadly rounded or truncate, and notched at distal end; second and third lobes similar, broader than mesal lobes, notched on FIG. ..."

3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... tongue more or less elongate, not notched behind. ... deeply notched behind ; vomerine t«tb uoa-. openings of the ..."

4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"... very slender branches of the axillary panicles ; the fertile in a simple spike ; stigmas notched at the apex ; caps oval or obovate, strongly 3-winged, ..."

5. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"Effect of the breaking wave upon a steep rocky shore — the notched cliff. ... notched rock cliff cut by waves and the f:illen Murks derived from the cliff ..."

6. Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1909)
"notched Fall Crest.—Great advantages have been found in India in adopting a notched form of canal fall, which practice has shown overcomes almost wholly the ..."

7. Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1909)
"notched Fall Crest.—Great advantages have been found in India in adopting a notched form of canal fall, which practice has shown overcomes almost wholly the ..."

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