1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 84 There may be taken out of the stalke and roote both a iuice by gasshyng and an other by pressyng.

1611 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdoms World (new ed.) i. 9 From these Nations..haue tortures of more exquisite deuice taken their originals: as exoculations, tearing of members, fleaings, gashings with swords.

1699 W. Winstanley Essex Champion iv. 74 Instead of fighting was full feeding, and no gashing nor slashing but only of Loins of Beef, Shoulders of Mutton, and good fat Capons.

1718 A. Boyer Polit. State Great Brit. Feb. 179 The Statute for preventing the gashing of Hides and Skins.

1773 Art of tanning & currying Leather 122 These hard parts resist the knife, and cause the cutting or gashing of the hide in the working on the beam.

1849 E. H. Melville & C. Norton Resid. at Sierra Leone xxxi. 258 Not content with the usual gashing and tattooing of their complexions, they mark their foreheads in various figures, and pull the skin over their eyes in vandykes!

1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 654 Gashings and tearings of the flesh make wounds which leave scars.

1945 H. C. Town & D. Potter Cutting Tool Pract. v. 61 Roughing cutters are sometimes gashed, but under ordinary conditions it is doubtful if any advantages accrue by the gashing of a roller cutter.

2008 I. O'Connor Arnie & Jack (2009) iv. 71 Hogan had a deeper respect for Nicklaus's swing than he did for Palmer's slashing and gashing.

1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon ii. sig. C.iii With gasshing swerd..Nor thrust it through anothers ribbes, then launche thy gory syde.

1750 M. Mendez Battiad. 2nd Canto 4 The gashing Blades descending Crimson streaks.

1796 T. Gisborne Walks in Forest (ed. 2) vi. 110 Life's last drops the gashing tomahawk drain'd.

1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge vi. 98 The clear axe..fell twice in heavy gashing thumps.

1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland x. 161 With swift cutting blows of the cruel, gashing tusks.

1912 J. M. Edmonds tr. Theocritus in Greek Bucolic Poets 323 I..cast the skin about me for a defence against the havoc of gashing war.

2004 E. Hunter Darkest Hour xxix. 305 Now he was on the defensive, trying to avoid the gashing claws.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 243 The babes within the mothers wombe, With gashing wound she will vntombe Ere nature bring it forth to light.

1747 T. Gibbons Elegy Death Gardiner in P. Doddridge Some Remarkable Passages Life Col. J. Gardiner App. ii. 212 Forsaken and alone, And torn with gashing Wounds.

1788 Edinb. Mag. Oct. 295/1 The honest soldier bares his breast, Deep mark'd with many a gashing rend.

1820 Methodist Mag. Feb. 49 Hovering devils, pursuing them with barbed spears, were ever employed in inflicting gashing wounds upon their broiling fugitives.

1893 Trans. Med. Soc. Calif. 218 I made a clean and deep gashing cut into the pharyngeal wall, causing severe hemorrhage.

1916 Med. Pickwick Apr. 124/2 With blackened eyes and a gashing scalp wound he was carried from the battlefield.

2001 M. Capuzzo Close to Shore (2002) 219 Shark attacks on man are often preceded by a bump that causes gashing wounds.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Gash, A child who has much prattle is said to be a gashing creature.

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 12 Crail town was up wi' gashin' gabs; Wabsters, throu' zeal, forgat their wabs.

1936 Rotarian Feb. 51/3 Best name me..gashin' Robbie.