To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
For a man, when kissing someone, to irritate the skin of that person with one's unshaven beard.
To produce a distinctive sound on a scratching).
To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
To dig or excavate with the claws.
To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
Money.
A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
(of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
A cut in a surface.
A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
Senses connoting something small.
A notch cut shank of a type, to assist a placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
A small ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the catch.
One of the segments produced during nick translation.
In the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
A station or prison.
clipping of nickname
A nix or water]] spirit.
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
To make ragged or mar.
To suit, as by a tally with.
To make a cuts on the tail of a horse, in order to make the carry it higher).
To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch strike at the time.
To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.
To steal.
To arrest.
To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.