Slash
Slash , transitive verb
[Old English slaschen, of uncertain origin; compare Old French esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and English slate, slice, slit, transitive verb]
1.
To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
2.
To lash; to ply the whip to. [Rare] — King
3.
To crack or snap, as a whip. [Rare] — Dr. H. More
Slash , intransitive verb
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.
Slash , noun
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.
Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. [Local, United States] — Bartlett
4.
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.