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单词 notch stick
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notch stick
notch stick n. a tally stick.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > equipment for lowering or raising miners or material > for raising material > tally-stick for number of tubs
notch stick1853
1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 61 In the fingers of his right [hand] was a crooked whittle, with which..as the basketfuls arrived, he would nick the score upon notch-sticks.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Notch Sticks, short pieces of stick notched or nicked, used by miners as records of the number of tubs of coal, &c., they send out of the pit during the day.
1948 D. Harkey Mean as Hell xvii. 175 I have lost my notch stick on Mexicans that I killed out on the border.
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