gash

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a long deep cut or wound; to inflict such a cut

   The rock left a deep gash across his knee.

From Middle English 'garsen' ('to slash'), from Old North French 'garser' ('to scarify'), from Vulgar Latin '*charaxare', from Greek 'kharassein' ('to engrave, scratch').

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