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Notch vs Cotch - What's the difference?

notch | cotch |

As verbs the difference between notch and cotch

is that notch is to cut a notch in (something) while cotch is .

As a noun notch

is a v-shaped cut.

notch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A V-shaped cut.
  • Such a cut, used for keeping a record
    • ''The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.
  • An indentation.
  • A mountain pass; a defile
  • (informal) A level or degree.
    • ''This car is a notch better than the other.
  • * 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark," guardian.co.uk , 20 June:
    • A better team might also have done more to expose Uruguay’s occasionally brittle defence, but England’s speed of thought and movement in their attacking positions was a good notch or two down from the Italy game.

    Derived terms

    * notch on one's bedpost, notch on the bedpost * notchback * notchboard * top notch

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cut a notch in (something).
  • To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
    • The tribe's hunters notch their kills by notches on each's axe's handle.
  • To join by means of notches.
  • To achieve (something).
    • The team notched a pair of shutout wins on Sunday.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * notcher * notchy

    cotch

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Edward S. Ellis, title=The Lost Trail, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Blast his sowl--that hunter I mane, an' if iver I cotch him, may I be used for a flail if I don't settle his accounts." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Harry Castlemon, title=Frank on a Gun-Boat, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Dey come here for to cotch young massa George Le Dell, 'cause dey knowed he would be shore for to come here." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Various, title=Dew Drops Vol. 37. No. 17, April 26, 1914, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Youse bettah look out, honey, or dey'll cotch youalls, shuah!" }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1880, author=Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell, title=The Harvest of Years, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Mas'r Sumner an' a'heap mo' on 'em would jes' like fur to kill dat Mas'r Dayton ef dey could cotch him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=John Hay, title=The Bread-winners, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But one ting ish goot; dey cotch de murterer." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Charles Egbert Craddock (aka Mary Noailles Murfree), title=The Raid Of The Guerilla, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ye mought hev cotch the smallpox. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1839, author=Charles James Lever, title=The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Well, we've cotch them any how," said the urchin, as he disengaged himself from his wet saddle, and stood upon the ground; "and it is not my fault that the coach is not before us." }}