notch †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a narrow pass between hills; defile; gap.

Quotations

1827

What are the Rocky Mountains?--have they been fully explored?--is there not a large notch or breach in them beyond Lake Superior?

1930

By the first he discovered a short cut through a notch between two hills that eliminated seven miles of the crooked and treacherous Moose River.