Word: knotched
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Saturday's meet between the Harvard men's indoor track team and the Northeastern Huskies had come down to the mile-and two-mile relays, and if the Crimson was going to knotch its first victory over its cross-river rival in more than five years, it needed to win both races...
...mistaken one, and more complete investigation shows that the structure was more insecure than the first account would indicate. The pile on which the structure rested had slipped from its original upright position and had gradually acquired a slant of some twenty degrees some time since. A knotch was cut in the side of the pile about three inches deep and in this an upright brace was fixed upon which the sleeper running back into the boat house rested. This sleeper did not extend as far out as the pile, but was mortised into the tranverse beam extending along...
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