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Definition of Nicked
1. nick [v] - See also: nick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicked
Literary usage of Nicked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"This dream . . made him get up very early ; he nicked the tune, ...
The white [greyhound] nicked up on the inside for two or three wrenches. _i8<ji. ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"THE ORIOLE TANAGERS, With the bill conical, arched, acute, and nicked at the end.
The genus TACHYPHONUS of Vieillot. Crested Tanager, Lath. 9. ..."
3. Smith's Work: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1902)
"A bar of iron, nicked round, and broken off suddenly, shows fractured surfaces
... When the work has been nicked with the fuller, the metal along A (Figs. ..."
4. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1903)
"... securely keyed to the shaft, and nicked to receive driving pegs of fibre, are
provided, with one or two similar plates at the middle of the core j while ..."
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