Nick

1. An evil spirit of the waters.
   
Old Nick ,
the evil one; the devil.

1. A notch cut into something
2. A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
1. A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

1. To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
2. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick{2} in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup.
3. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
4. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
5. To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry it higher).

1. To nickname; to style.