Examples of use of GASHING
1. The 36–year–old lost contact with the ground and took a dramatic plunge, gashing her head open as she landed.
2. On Nov. 7, a '01–foot container ship sideswiped the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, gashing its hull and dumping 58,000 gallons of sludge–like bunker fuel.
3. After the initial collision, the bus scraped the interim Capitol, shattering windows, before crossing the street and crashing head–on into a Virginia Department of Transportation building, gashing a large hole in its brick facade.
4. During Endeavour‘s liftoff on Aug. 8, a piece of foam insulation or ice had broken off a bracket on the external fuel tank, fell onto a strut lower on the tank and then bounced into the shuttle, gashing its tiles.
5. "They tried to kill him in two ways hanging and gashing his arm to ensure that he dies quickly and does not testify against them for the torture they inflicted on him.