n. A nick or indentation; a small hollow or nick cut or sunk in anything, as in the end of an arrow for the reception of the bowstring.n. In carpentry, a hollow cut in the face of a piece of timber for the reception of another piece.n. A narrow defile or passage between mountains; or, more properly, the entrance to such a defile, when it is nearly closed by precipices or walls of rock on either hand.n. A step or degree; a grade.n. A point in the game of cricket.n. In zoology and anatomy, an incision or incisure; an emargination: as, the interclavicular notch, the depression over the breast-bone between the prominent ends of the clavicles.n. In armor, the bouche of a shield.n. The large notch of the maxilla that forms the lateral and lower boundary of the entrance to the nasal cavity.To cut a notch or notches in; indent; nick; hack; as, to notch a stick.To place in a notch; fit to a string by the notch, as an arrow.In cricket, to mark or score; have as score the number of.n. The posterior or lower angle, formed by the meeting of the pubic bones. Same as pubic arch.n. Same as undercut, 2.To make an undercut in (a tree) preparatory to felling (it). Also undercut.