notched, ppl. a.
(ˈnɒtʃt)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. a. That has a notch or notches cut in it; nicked, indented; marked with a notch.
| 1602 Marston Ant. & Mel. 1, He lookes like a may⁓pole, or notched stick. 1683 Crowne City Politiques v, Because a knight's notch'd in the crown, and the doctor's a little crack'd there. 1744 Johnson Diary N. Wales (1816) 74 At an iron-work I saw round bars formed by a knotched hammer and anvil. 1779 Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 110 They ascended with great agility, by a long notched stick. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 112 The oak-tree, gnarl'd and notch'd, Lifts its..furrow'd side. 1847 Smeaton Builder's Man. 163 To describe an Ellipse by Means of..a piece of notched Lath. 1887 Hall Caine Deemster xxxiii, The notched door of the portcullis was open. |
b. Bot. Coarsely dentate or serrate.
| 1676 Grew Anat. Pl., Fruits 176 The Belly'd [flowers] are also Even Edged, as in Convolvulus; or Notched, as in Trachelium. 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 310 The leaves of this tree are..notched about the edges. 1796 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 200 Petals..heart-shaped, bent inwards, and notched at the end. 1824 Sir J. E. Smith Eng. Fl. (1828) II. 345 Petals 5, flat, spreading, notched. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 51 Petals notched, and with a notched scale. |
c. Zool. Having notches or incisions.
| 1713 Petiver Aquat. Anim. Amboinæ 1/2 Echinus planus,..Double notch'd Sea Pan-cake. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 359 The two great claws..are usually notched, like a saw. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 26/1 Ears..a little notched on their external border. 1880 Günther Fishes 330 Pectoral fins not notched at their origin. |
| Comb. 1871 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 307 The Notched-eared Bat (Vespertilio emarginatus), found in Central and Southern Europe, and extending eastward into Persia. |
d. notched-bar test: any of several impact tests (as the Izod or the Charpy test) in which the energy absorbed in breaking a notched specimen in a single blow is measured.
| 1918 Proc. Inst. Automobile Engin. XII. 250 Untreated bright drawn mild steel bar..usually gives a low result on the notched bar test. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. VIII. 272/2 Notched-bar tests are made to estimate the ductility that may be expected in the presence of defects in structures. |
† 2. Having unevenly or closely cropped hair.
| 1611 Cotgr., Bertaudé, curtalled; also, notched, or cut vneuenly. c 1648 Davenant Vac. in London Wks. (1673) 289 For Prentice notch'd he strait does call. 1681 Dryden Span. Friar Prol., Even as notch'd prentices whole sermons write. [1820 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Oxford in the Vacation, A votary of the desk—a notched and cropt scrivener.] |