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▪ I. ˈslashing, vbl. n.
[f. slash v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb; cutting; gashing.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden Ep. Ded., Discoursing of his fraies and deep acting of his slashing and hewing. 1649Milton Eikon. iv, Onely to turne his slashing at the Court Gate, to slaughtering in the Field. 1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 13 We were at slashing and pelting with the Hollanders, and they with us. 1782Crèvecœur Lett. 81 How do you go on with your new cutting and slashing? 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 655 Special orders were given..that the swords should be made rather for stabbing than for slashing.
attrib.1670Aubrey Miscell. (1890) App. 214 Their servants..(in that slashing age) did commonly bang one another's bucklers.
2. a. The action of making a slit in a garment in order to show the lining or an under-garment of a contrasting colour; the opening thus made.
1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 221 The elegant fashion of slashing makes its appearance about this time. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlwk. 451/2 Pieces of stuff of a different material being sewn under the Slashings.
b. A piece of material inserted in a garment of a different colour to form a contrast.
1842Illustr. London News 14 May 9/1 The slashing being fully studded..with diamonds, rubies, emeralds. 1887Sporting Life 2 July 3/1 A dress of creamy white material with a pale pink slashing. 1888Athenæum 27 Oct. 551/3 Brocaded trains gleaming fitfully with slashings of exquisite pink.
3. A heavy downpour of rain.
1828A. M. Hall Sketches Irish Char. (1842) 74 The rain fell in slashings, like hail.
4. N. Amer.
a. The action of felling trees, esp. as a preliminary to clearing a tract of forest by burning.
1822Port Folio XIII. 68 The act of hewing down the timber is called slashing. 1833A. Fergusson Pract. Notes 42 A mode of chopping is in use hereabouts, termed slashing. It consists in merely prostrating the trees, without any further operation for a season, and then at leisure consuming the whole by fire. 1899W. A. MacKay Pioneer Life in Zorra 167 There were three ways by which the first settlers cleared the land. The first was called ‘slashing’. 1963E. C. Guillet Pioneer Farmer & Backwoodsman I. 309 Another easy and cheap method was ‘slashing’..felling the trees and allowing them to stay where they fell for a season or two.
b. = slash n.1 4 a.
1840Jamestown (N.Y.) Jrnl. 1 July 2/5 On Monday, the body of Mr. Brown was found in a slashing. 1894Outing XXIV. 186/2 When we got into a spruce thicket or an old ‘slashing’—the track of a hurricane. 1912‘R. Connor’ Corporal Cameron of N.W. Mounted Police 269 At the ‘slashing’ the wagon ruts faded out and the road narrowed to a single cow path.
c. = slash n.1 4 b. Freq. pl.
1864T. Weed in T. L. Nichols 40 Yrs. Amer. Life II. 215 Cattle..were turned out to ‘browse’ in the ‘slashings’. 1928P. A. Taverner Ornithol. Invest. near Belvedere, Alberta 104 Mountain Bluebird, not uncommon in the burnt spruce and slashings, but scarce elsewhere. 1964Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 20 Sept. 5/2 Another small fire was burning in slashing on the west side of Reef Point. 1980Northeast Woods & Waters Dec. 7/3 It headed into a small swamp made up of very thick and very low alders, criss-crossed with blowdowns and slashings.
5. The sizing of yarn by means of a slasher (sense 4) (see also quot. 1960).
1895R. Marsden Cotton Weaving 514 Blackburn prices for Tape-sizeing or Slashing. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §369 Dresser,..one who prepares delicate and fine yarns by passing them through sizing or slashing frame. 1960Textile Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 4) 136 Slashing,..(1) A synonym for slasher sizing. (2) This term has also been adopted to indicate the process which is used to reduce the extensibility of rayon yarns... The process consists in stretching the yarn in the wet state and then drying it while maintaining the stretched length.
▪ II. ˈslashing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
1. Severely critical; cuttingly sarcastic.
1735Pope Prol. Sat. 164 From slashing Bentley down to pidling Tibalds. 1841De Quincey Homer i. Wks. 1857 VI. 312 The Alexandrian critics, with all their slashing insolence, showed themselves sons of the feeble. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Organ. §5. 306 Slashing style, and daring assertion,..are falling into discredit. 1895Tablet 23 Mar. 457 A deliberate and slashing attack upon the Catholic Church.
2. That slashes or cuts severely. Also of weapons with cutting edges.
1827Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 70 Being ‘called out’ by one of these slashing gentlemen. 1863Reader 31 Oct. 502 The way in which he cramps up his calves and toes as the next slashing blow is about to come down. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 121, In every mill there are other saws.., such as ‘slashing’ saws for cutting slabs. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments i. 34 To give better protection against the slashing sword. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo ix. 162 Their wrists adorned with semi-circular slashing knives and their fingers with the slashing blades they mount on rings.
3. a. Spirited; dashing; full of vigour. Now used esp. of horses.
1828Scott F.M. Perth viii, There goes the pride of Perth—there go the slashing craftsmen. 1852Bristed Five Yrs. Eng. Univ. (ed. 2) 276 They were mostly what would be called slashing men, who could do a great deal and do it well. 1862Illustr. Lond. News 10 May 492/3 The Stockwell colt..was a slashing horse. 1951Sport 16–22 Mar. 20/2 A big slashing powerful chestnut with powerful limbs to support his considerable weight, he is equally good in front and behind the saddle. 1976Horse & Hound 10 Dec. 8/1 Fred Winter was able to give Bula the run he needed..in Wednesday's Sundew 'Chase, named after the fine, big, slashing chestnut whom he rode to victory in..1957.
b. Of actions; esp. of pace, rapid.
1824W. Irving Tales Trav. I. 54 My grandfather rode jollily along, in his easy slashing way. 1837T. Hook Jack Brag iii, They all went off at a slashing pace. 1882Daily Tel. 19 May, Making a slashing drive to the off for 4.
c. spec. in Cricket, playing or played in a vigorous or unrestrained manner. Cf. slash v.1 2 b.
1832P. Egan Bk. Sports 346/1 A free slashing hitter, who holds it a crime To get any less than six runs a time. 1849Boy's Own Bk. 69 Such implements as these [sc. the old bats] were but ill adapted even for what is termed ‘slashing hitting’. 1885[see free a. 8 f].
Comb.1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. viii, A long-armed, bare-headed, slashing-looking player coming to the wicket.
4. Very large or fine; splendid. Now chiefly Austral.
1854Dickens Hard T. ii. vii, Some fair creature with a slashing fortune at her disposal. 1861Harper's Mag. Mar. 470/1 Capin Clapp..relaxed his rigid features..as he thought of the ‘slashin’ cargo we had aboard. 1969Telegraph (Brisbane) 16 May 15/4 Elke Sommer in some slashing fashions takes up crime in this study of computerised skullduggery. 1973Ibid. 16 Aug. 26/3 Who'll win a slashing $700 wardrobe just for looking her smart, bright self?
Hence ˈslashingly adv., in a slashing manner; vigorously; severely.
1659Torriano, A-sláscio, slashingly, riotously. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 743 He goes slashingly to work. 1893Review of Rev. Dec. 626 Told so vividly and slashingly. |