A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.
An error; a blunder.
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
A police station or prison.
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).