slashing

Bitingly critical or satiric.

Dashing; pelting.

Brilliant; intense.

The act of swinging a stick at an opponent in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.

The sizing, drying, and beaming of cotton warp for weaving on a machine called a slasher.

That cuts and slashes at random; recklessly or unmercifully severe; that cuts right and left indiscriminately: as, a slashing criticism or article.

Dashing; recklessly rapid: as, a slashing gait.

Very big; great; slapping.

A slash or pane in a garment.

In milit. engin., the felling of trees so that their tops shall fall toward the enemy, and thus prevent or retard his approach; also (in singular or plural), the trees thus felled: same as abatis, 1.