notch
/nɑtʃ/ noun C1- A V-shaped cut.
- Such a cut, used for keeping a record. · The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.
- An indentation.
- A mountain pass; a defile.
- The female primary sex organ, vulva.
- A woman.
- A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
- A level or degree. · This car is a notch better than the other.· Can you speak a notch louder, please?
Plural notches
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Then following the clew that, in the hands of the Abbé Faria, had been so skilfully used to guide him through the Dædalian labyrinth of probabilities, he thought that the Cardinal Spada, anxious not to be watched, had entered the creek, concealed his little barque, followed the line marked by the notches in the rock, and at the end of it had buried his treasure.
More than once, as tufts of grass came out in my hand or my foot slipped in the wet notches of the rock, I thought that I was gone.
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