Crossword-Solution: NOTCHING 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that was your own embellishment, because white men don’t take that sort of revenge.

Tudor was notching his steel-jacketed bullets, or cutting them blunt, so that they would spread on striking--in short, he was making them into the vicious dum-dum prohibited in modern warfare.

Instead of singing the praises of the Lord in the chapel, he amused himself, during the services, by notching a bench; or, when he had stolen a piece of wood, he would carve the figure of some saint.

When we consider what system or lack of system of land laws and land entries obtained in Watauga and such primitive communities--when a patch of corn sealed a right and claims were made by notching trees with tomahawks--we may imagine that a file from the land office might appear easily enough to smirch a landholder's integrity.

The highest and most striking mountain to be seen was Mount Bigelow, rising above Dead River, far to the west, and its two sharp peaks notching the horizon like enormous saw-teeth.