Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply.
  • noun A long deep cut.
  • noun A deep flesh wound.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To converse; gossip; tattle; gush.
  • Shrewd; sagacious; having the appearance of sagacity joined with that of self-importance.
  • Lively and fluent in discourse; talkative.
  • Trim; well dressed.
  • To make a long deep incision in, as flesh; cut deeply into the flesh of: as, to gash a person's cheek.
  • noun An incision or cut, relatively long and deep; particularly, a cut in flesh; a slash.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.
  • transitive verb To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A deep cut.
  • noun slang, vulgar A vulva, pussy
  • noun slang, offensive A woman
  • noun slang, British Royal Navy Rubbish, spare kit
  • noun slang Rubbish on board an aircraft
  • noun slang Unused film or sound during film editing
  • noun slang Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
  • verb To make a deep, long cut, to slash.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
  • noun a wound made by cutting
  • verb cut open
  • noun a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of Middle English garsen, to scarify, from Old North French garser, from Late Latin charaxāre, to scratch, engrave, from Greek kharassein.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From an alteration of Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek charássein ("to scratch, notch").

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Examples

  • With the Vietnam Memorial, you created what you call a gash or a rift in the landscape.

    Escaping From The Shadow Of The 'Wall' 2007

  • That gash is frickin 'unreal - looked like a great PPV.

    UFC 107 recap Tyler 2009

  • Pop has a long cut on his chin, the jagged edge like a gash from a bone saw.

    I Never Was George L. Chieffet 2010

  • A gash from a tomahawk disfigured his head; the woolly hair was matted with blood.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • The boy didn't appear to be concussed, but the gash was a deep one that would leave an unsightly scar if not stitched well.

    Broken Symmetry Angela Brett 2010

  • Running water of any temperature over the gash was agonizing.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SETTING UP HOUSE Maggie Jochild 2007

  • One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood.

    Conan The Invincible Jordan, Robert 1982

  • Monty was alive, but in spite of what Gloria could do the dark blood was welling out from a sword gash on his right side, and we had not a surgeon within miles of us.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Monty was alive, but in spite of what Gloria could do the dark blood was welling out from a sword gash on his right side, and we had not

    The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909

  • A large sword gash in his side, which had been sewed up, but from which the blood continually oozed, was the obvious cause of his present condition, and, to all human appearance, his death warrant.

    Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I. 1839

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