Crossword-Solution: NOTCHER 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Ferguson himself, while a fair shortstop, was by no means a top-notcher, and neither was he a really good manager, he not having the necessary control over the men that he had under him.

Then I'll work East and see New York, and by-and-by I'll go over to Europe an' call on the principal Crown Heads--not the little 'uns, you understand, like Portugal and Belgium, or fry of that sort: they ain't no class--an' then I'll marry a real fine girl, a reg'lar top-notcher with whips of dollars, an' go and live at Monte Carlo.

The hands were wonderful, and Dum said that was a true test of painting; that if an artist was not a top-notcher he could not draw hands, and usually made the model sit on them or put them in his pocket, or if it happened to be a woman, covered them up with drapery.

They had spent their money, smoked "top-notcher" cigars, seen the "shows" and feasted each as his fancy dictated, and as behooved cowpunchers with money in their pockets.

But this price was a "fancy one," what Quinney termed a "top-notcher." Susan was instructed to take a third less.