gash

gash
\ \ [16] Greek kharássein meant ‘sharpen, engrave, cut’ (it gave English character). It was borrowed into Latin as charaxāre, which appears to have found its way into Old Northern French as garsercut, slash’. English took this over as garse, which survived, mainly as a surgical term meaning ‘make incisions’, into the 17th century.
\ \ An intermediate form garsh, recorded in the 16th century, suggests that this was the source of modern English gash.
\ \ Cf.CHARACTER

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  • gash — [gæʃ] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Old North French; Origin: garser, from Greek charassein to make a mark in the surface of something ] a large deep cut or hole in something, for example in a person s skin ▪ Blood poured from a deep gash in her forehead …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Gash — Gash, n. A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • gash — [n] cut made by slicing cleft, furrow, gouge, incision, laceration, mark, nip, notch, rent, slash, slit, split, tear, wound; concept 309 gash [v] cut by slicing carve, cleave, furrow, gouge, incise, injure, lacerate, lance, mark, nip, notch,… …   New thesaurus

  • gash — ► NOUN ▪ a long, deep slash, cut, or wound. ► VERB ▪ make a gash in. ORIGIN from Old French garcer to chap, crack , perhaps from Greek kharassein sharpen, scratch, engrave …   English terms dictionary

  • gash — [gash] vt. [earlier garse < ME garsen < OFr garser < VL * charassare < Gr charassein, to cut, engrave] to make a long, deep cut in; slash n. [ME garse < OFr] a long, deep cut …   English World dictionary

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