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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Nick \Nick\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Nicked} (n[i^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Nicking}.]

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

2. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick[2] in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup. [1913 Webster +PJC]

And thence proceed to nicking sashes. --Prior.

The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. --Shak.

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

Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations. --Camden.

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

The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. --L'Estrange.

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "nicked": battlemented, chopped, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, dentate, dentated, embrasured, erose, gashed, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, notched, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped, scored, serrate, serrated, serrulated, toothed