Definition of "gashing"

gashing

verb
1. present participle and gerund of gash
noun
plural gashings
1. The act of making a gash, or cut.
  Quotations
  Nature prompts to the use of them; for the savage of the woods has the song and the ceremonies of his ancestors, and by the gashings and daubings with which he disfigures his form, denotes his tribe.
  1821, Theodore Dehon, Sermons, on the Public Means of Grace
2. (engineering) The roughing operation for worm gears.