gashing

• I'm sure you recall the story, this guy was unable to bound by shackles and chains (Mk. 5.3), he was constantly engaged in violent outbursts (5.4), and to make matters worse he ran around screaming and gashing himself with stones (5.5). —  Irish Calvinist
• I do not like the idea of giving thw ball to the FB when the RB have been gashing the Viking D. Colletto out thought himself. —  The Wayne Fontes Experience
• Acts of self-discipline, e.g. fasting, gashing, mutilating one's self, also enter into mourning. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• I shall tumble back if you don't take the weight of the tub off me Begorrah, Tom, me hearty, ye shan't git kilt wid that there gashing- tub!" —  Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
• "The fellow started back at sight of me, and I don't think he meant to leave go of the gashing-tub as he did Begorrah!" —  Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy

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