Gashes [noun]

Horrid the gashes where jagged iron had cut through the flesh, severing arteries and tendons in an instant.

There were seams in the masonry, and great gashes where the solid bolts crumbled the bricks to dust.

That her sharp nails had been busy to good effect was proved by the long, deep gashes on the faces and necks of both seamen.

In each of the shorter ones he made one slight gash and in each of the longer ones two gashes.

What wounded man inquires whether the surgeon that tents his gashes have clean hands or not?

The duel becomes too long, and the gashes are always ridiculously broad, indecently so.'

She had received many ugly gashes, but none of them necessarily mortal.

The quivering bodies of the foolhardy emissaries lay pierced with a dozen great gashes.

The dead man bore no bolo gashes, and the wound which had disabled him had been only a bullet through one shoulder.

The bear's claws had penetrated through the skin, and had scored three gashes on his shoulder.