Slash \Slash\, n.

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. [Cf. Slashy.]

pl. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. [Local, U.S.]

--Bartlett.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Slash \Slash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slashing.]

[OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF. esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E. slate, slice, slit, v. t.]

1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.]

--King.

3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.]

--Dr. H. More.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Slash \Slash\, v. i. 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. --Spenser.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Slash \Slash\, n. 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. --Henry Van Dyke.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)