To cut with long incisions; gash; slit; slice.To cut with a violent sweep; cut by striking violently and at random, as with a sword or an ax.To ornament, as a garment, by cutting slits in the cloth, and arranging lining of brilliant colors to be seen underneath.To lash.To crack or snap, as a whip.To strike violently and at random with a cutting instrument; lay about one with sharp blows.To cut or move rapidly.n. A cut; a gash; a slit.n. A random, sweeping cut at something with an edged instrument, as a sword or an ax, or with a whip or switch.n. A slit cut in the stuff from which a garment is made, intended to show a different and usually bright-colored material underneath.n. Hence A piece of tape or worsted lace placed on the sleeves of non-commissioned officers to distinguish them from privates; a stripe.n. A clearing in a wood; any gap or opening in a wood, whether caused by the operations of woodmen or by wind or fire. Compare slashing, 2.n. plural Same as slashing, 3.n. A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes: often in the plural.n. A mass of coal which has been crushed and shattered by a movement of the earth's crust.To work in wet.n. A great quantity of broth or similar food.n. A wet or marshy linear depression between nearly parallel ridges of dunes on a sand-reef. See the extract.