Hypertext Webster Gateway: "slash"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slash \Slash\, n.
1. A long cut; a cut made at random.
2. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show
the lining through the openings.
3. [Cf. {Slashy}.] pl. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with
bushes. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slash \Slash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Slashing}.] [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF.
esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E.
slate, slice, slit, v. t.]
1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long
slits.
2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] --King.
3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slash \Slash\, v. i.
To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged
instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to
cut hastily and carelessly.
Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slash \Slash\, n.
A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other
destructive agency.
We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the
edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain
fairly before us. --Henry Van
Dyke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
slash
n 1: a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut"
[syn: {cut}, {gash}, {slice}]
2: an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris
from logging (or fire or wind)
3: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of
information [syn: {solidus}, {virgule}, {diagonal}, {stroke},
{separatrix}]
4: a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument [syn: {gash}]
v 1: cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete [syn: {cut
down}]
2: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged
the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn:
{flog}, {welt}, {whip}, {lather}, {lash}, {strap}, {trounce}]
3: cut open; "she slashed her wrists" [syn: {gash}]
4: cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
5: move or stir about violently; The feverish patient thrashed
around in his bed" [syn: {convulse}, {thresh}, {thresh
about}, {thrash}, {thrash about}, {toss}]
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