Definition of "guttings" [guttings]

• Plural form of gutting. (noun)

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• "These guttings of statutory rights, however disguised, will be strenuously opposed by the Chamber."
• "Beheadings, cut throats and being casually shot were the more common and merciful actions — compared to bayonet stabbings, rapes, guttings (disembowelments), numerous rifle butt beatings and a deliberate refusal to allow the prisoners food or water while keeping them continually marching for nearly a week (for the slowest survivors) in tropical heat."
• "There are explosions, pick-axe murders and open-heart guttings."