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▪ I. nicking, vbl. n.1|ˈnɪkɪŋ|
[f. nick v.2 + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of notching or cutting.
1551Turner Herbal i. B vij b, The milky humour, that commeth out of y⊇ herbe, by scotching or nyckyng. 1611Cotgr., Creneure, a iagging, nicking, notching. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch xxiii, Baking and brewing—nicking of geese's craigs—hacking the necks of dead chickens. 1837Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 72/1 The method of cutting this stone into sizes is by what the quarrymen call ‘nicking’. A line is drawn across the stone with a chisel [etc.]. 1903Brit. Med. Jrnl. No. 2205. 848 The ‘nicking’ of the stricture was followed by a large enema.
b. spec. in Farriery (see nick v.2 3).
1753J. Bartlet Gentl. Farriery 309 Before we describe the operation of Nicking, it may be necessary to enquire how the effect of it..is brought about. 1815Sporting Mag. XLVI. 115 His condemnation of cropping and nicking. 1896Daily News 14 Feb. 5/3 Nicking is a process supplemental to what is known as ‘docking’.
c. A notch or indentation; a cutting or set of cuts. (See also quot. 1881.)
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1277 The nicking should extend all the way from the shoulder-top to the tail. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Nicking, the cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face. Nickings is the small coal produced in making the nicking. 1898H. G. Hutchinson Golf (ed. 6) 69 The first gutta-percha balls were made smooth, without any of the ‘nicking’ which we now see upon them.
d. A method of pruning in which an incision is made below the base of a bud in order to curb its growth.
1949C. R. Thompson Pruning of Apples & Pears ii. 53 The top bud should be prevented from growing vigorously by making a knife incision at its base, a treatment referred to as ‘nicking’. 1972G. E. Brown Pruning of Trees ii. 24 Nicking is carried out below selected buds in order to reduce their vigour.
†2. The practice of fraudulently diminishing the capacity of a beer-can. Obs. rare.
1628Robin Goodfellow (Percy Soc.) 29 There was a tapster, that with his pots smalnesse..had got a good summe of money together. This nicking of the pots he would never leave. c1636London Chanticleers v, The slight of nicking and frothing he scornes as too common.
3. The action of hitting (upon) or striking.
1668Dryden Dram. Poesy Ess. (ed. Ker) I. 92 This nicking of him who spoke before both in sound and measure is so great an happiness. 1687A. Lovell tr. Bergerac's Com. Hist. 4 Because of the nicking of the time so patly. 1899N. & Q. 9th Ser. III. 185/1 There was ‘nicking’, when one player's button touched another after rebounding from the wall when ‘banged.’
4. See nick v.2 8 a.
5. attrib., as nicking board, nicking buddle, nicking trunk (for washing ores); nicking engine, nicking file, nicking saw, nicking tool (for cutting the nick in screw-heads); nicking knife, nicking machine (for horses' tails); nicking-process.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 751 Alongside of this channel there is a slightly inclined plank, called *nicking board.
Ibid., The *nicking buddle is analogous to the tables called dormantes or jumelles by the French miners.
1831Holland Manuf. Metal I. 205 The pacha of Egypt obtained from this country..six *nicking, and six cutting engines.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1526/2 *Nicking-file.
1816in Blaine Veter. Art (ed. 2) 665 *Nicking knives, with Lines and brass Pullies.
1753J. Bartlet Gentl. Farriery 331 Directions for the Application of the *Nicking Machine.
1875Lower Eng. Surnames (ed. 4) II. App. 176 A Christian name unsusceptible of the *nicking or abbreviating process.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 634/2 *Nicking Saw.
1875― Dict. Mech. 2067/2 The blank..is presented to the shaving tool, and then..fed to the *nicking tool.
Ibid. 1526/2 *Nicking-trunk.
▪ II. † ˈnicking, n.2 Obs.
(A doubtful form: see inkling.)
a1400–50Alexander 2968 (D.), Þis gouernour of grece..Harde a nyckyng [A. a nyngkiling] of hys name & natys hym to ryse.
▪ III. ˈnicking, ppl. a.
[f. nick v.2 + -ing2.]
That nicks, in various senses of the vb.
1598Marston Sco. Villanie iii. ix. 218 O what a tricksie lerned nicking strain Is this applauded, senselesse, modern vain! 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 208 The same Authour in another place..hath these nicking Hexameters. Ibid. 622 These nicking, nice, allusive verses. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk. & Selv. To Rdr., Perhaps if we slip this tide, we shall never come again at such a nicking one. a1734North Exam. ii. iv. §40 (1740) 250 It might have proved a nicking Evidence against him. |