An abutment.
The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; buttals.
The act of abutting.
To describe a piece of land in terms of its abuttals.
Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
A police station or prison.
A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
To make a cut at the side of the face.
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
To steal.
To arrest.
To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).