transitive. To cut or chop with heavy blows in an irregular or random fashion; to mangle or mutilate, esp. with jagged cuts, so as to damage or…

transitive. To cut, mutilate, hack, or break up (a material thing) roughly, so as to damage and disfigure; †to divide up untidily, messily, or…

transitive. To cut roughly; to hack; to slash. Also with off: to remove by hacking.

transitive. To hack about.

transitive. To slash with a sharp instrument; to tear or open up roughly or with violence. Now rare.

To cut, hack, or gash the surface of irregularly; to damage by or as by cutting.

transitive. Chiefly (now only) Scottish and regional. To cut, slash, or hack (someone or something); to mangle (something). Also figurative. Also…

transitive. To cut about, hack, mangle.

transitive. To cut (a person or thing) with rough or heavy blows; to cut clumsily leaving jagged edges; to hack. Also figurative. Chiefly regional in…

transitive (in passive). To be hacked open or slashed. Obsolete. rare.

To cut roughly, or so as to leave snags.

transitive. To slaughter (an animal), to kill for market. Also: to cut up, to hack. Cf. butcher, v. 1a 3a.