gashing
noun1
The act of making a gash, or cut.
- Nature prompts to the use of them; for the savage of the woods has the song and the ceremonies of his ancestors, and by the gashings and daubings with which he disfigures his form, denotes his tribe.1821, Theodore Dehon, Sermons, on the Public Means of Grace:
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Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The roughing operation for worm gears.