Definitions for notches

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notches notch

Spelling: [noch]

IPA: /nɒtʃ/

Notches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in notches (cehnost).

Definitions for notches

noun

1. an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
2. a cut or nick made in a stick or other object for record, as in keeping a tally.
3. New England and Upstate New York. a deep, narrow opening or pass between mountains; gap; defile.
4. Informal. a step, degree, or grade:
5. Metallurgy. a taphole in a blast furnace:

Idioms

1. notch up / down, to move up or down or increase or decrease by notches or degrees:

verb (used with object)

1. to cut or make a notch in.
2. to record by notches:
3. to score, as in a game:

Origin of notches

1570-80; a notch (by false division) for an *otch Old French oche notch

Examples for notches

The notches for the string should be two-thirds the depth of the string.

These notches are for the string, which is to be put on early.

Why the notches of a fern leaf or the stamen of a water lily?

The edges of the gables rose, not in a slope, but in a succession of notches, like stairs.

If Johnson notches his support up to 10 percent, the question won't be if he alters the November outcome, but how.

Still, I must say, having you puts me a couple of notches ahead of her.

My old car had the gears as they used always to be in notches on a bar.

As if working down a checklist, he notches short chapters about every institution within the greater floating institution.

That respect will fall more than a couple of notches with any downgrade.

From the notches on his back the alligator is called a sawrian.