To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at
the precise point or time.

To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail
of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).

A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick;
the exact point or critical moment.

To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to
tally with.

To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or
upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in
china.

A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

A notch cut into something

A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a
compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or
notches in.