nicking
English edit
Verb edit
nicking
- present participle and gerund of nick
Noun edit
nicking (plural nickings)
- A small cut or nick.
- 1961, Life, volume 50, number 20, page 15:
- The physicians sounded a warning about shaving among both men and women who have pigmented moles on the skin. Such moles, they cautioned, should never be irritated by repeated nickings.
- (mining) The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face.
- Synonym: prickings