To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
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 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).
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.
A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
To wedge or steady with quoins.
Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
The keystone of an arch.
A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin.
A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.