Definition of "gashing" [gashing]

• Present participle of gash. (verb)
• The roughing operation for worm gears (verb)

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• "ROME — A luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, gashing open the hull and forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats to a nearby island early Saturday."
• "Sure, the quarterbacks meeting room is still full of bombast about gashing defenses aerially, Carr said."
• "Elsinore off the lee-shore of the Horn; and Boney the Splinter, following, washed overboard to drown as we cleared the sea-gashing rock-tooth where the southern tip of the continent bit into the storm-wrath of the Antarctic; and the big-footed, clumsy youth of a"