nicking

Pluralnickings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of nick. Use it for an action that is going on.

   Be careful, you're nicking the wall with that chair.

   He kept nicking himself while he was shaving.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A small cut, like the kind a razor can leave on your skin.

   The physicians sounded a warning about shaving among both men and women who have pigmented moles on the skin. Such moles, they cautioned, should never be irritated by repeated nickings.

   1961, Life, number 20Here, nickings means small cuts, like those a razor can leave.

   Similarcut, notch

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3. 3
   nouncountable

   In a mine, the cut a miner makes at the side of the wall being dug.

   Each miner made a nicking on one side of the coal before it was brought down.

   The old mine wall still showed the hewers' nickings at its sides.

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