notching

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To cut or make notches in; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick. [1913 Webster]

2.To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string. [1913 Webster]

God is all sufferance; here he doth show No arrow notched, only a stringless bow.— Herrick.[1913 Webster]

1.The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. [1913 Webster]

2.The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches. [1913 Webster]

3.(Carp.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. [1913 Webster]

4.(Engin.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting. [1913 Webster]