Hypertext Webster Gateway: "notching"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Notching \Notch"ing\, n.
1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small
hollows.
2. The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches.
3. (Carp.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by
notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or
interlocking the notched portions.
4. (Engin.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series
of cuttings side by side. See also {Gulleting}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Notch \Notch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Notched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Notching}.]
1. To cut or make notches in; to indent; also, to score by
notches; as, to notch a stick.
2. To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.
God is all sufferance; here he doth show No arrow
notched, only a stringless bow. --Herrick.
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