Notching

·noun The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches.

II. Notching ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Notch.

III. Notching ·noun The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.

IV. Notching ·noun A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. ·see also Gulleting.

V. Notching ·noun A method of joining timbers, scantling, ·etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.