notch

About 2.93 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun Such a cut, used for keeping a record.

   The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.

3. noun An indentation.
4. noun A mountain pass; a defile.
5. noun The female primary sex organ, vulva.
6. noun A woman.
7. noun A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
8. noun A level or degree.

   This car is a notch better than the other.

Similar words

prick slit snick scratch incision pass nick dent mountain pass indent

Often followed by

in and of is on or at to filter

Word family

notched notches notching