NICK

noun a notch cut into something.

2. nick ·noun an evil spirit of the waters.

3. nick ·noun a score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

4. nick ·noun a broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.

5. nick ·vt to nickname; to style.

6. nick ·vt to suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

7. nick ·vt to hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

8. nick ·noun a particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

9. nick ·vt 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).

10. nick ·vt to mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

11. nick ·noun a notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

12. nick ·vt to make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, ·etc.