gashing
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]gashing
- present participle and gerund of gash
Noun
[edit]gashing (plural gashings)
- The act of making a gash, or cut.
- 1821, Theodore Dehon, Sermons, on the Public Means of Grace:
- 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.
- (engineering) The roughing operation for worm gears.