Definition of "flesh-wound" [flesh-wound]

• A wound which does not extend beyond the flesh; a slight vound. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The bullet was small-calibre and spent ere it reached him, so that he received no more than a flesh-wound, though he carried on as if he were dying until Mr. Pike hushed his noise by cuffing his ears."
• ""It's only a flesh-wound, and he isn't going to die," Sheldon managed to interpolate."
• "Smarmy, two-faced finger-wagger Mike "Bad Penny" Pence sure didn't look too delighted as Obama took him apart like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (t'was anything but a flesh-wound), using Pence's own economically-sub literate budget document for rhetorical toilet paper, and with the outhouse door wide open for all to see."