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gash(2)(dictionary)
gash(3)(dictionary)
gash(4)(dictionary)
gash(5)(dictionary)
gash(6)(dictionary)
gash(dictionary)

gash(6) (iou)



gash verb. Also (earlier) garse, garsh. LME.
[Old French garcer: see GASH noun1.]
verb trans. Make a deep cut or slash in (flesh, a garment, etc.); cut (a hole). LME.
V. Woolf Any weapon that would have gashed a hole in his father's breast and killed him. J. L. Waten The lofty walls of their bare rooms were gashed and punctured with..cracks and holes.
verb intrans. Make a gash. L17.
fig.: B. Gutteridge The chalk road gashed into the distance.
? The mod. form is recorded from M16.
gashed ppl adjective (a) slashed, cut; (b) produced by gashing: L16.