Word Meanings - SLASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits. 2. To lash; to ply the whip to. King. 3. To crack or snap, as a whip. Dr. H. More.

Related words: (words related to SLASH)

• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• CRACKLE
  To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• RANDOMLY
  In a random manner.
• CRACKSMAN
  A burglar.
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• CRACK
  cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2.
• CRACKLING
  Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting. (more info) 1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6. 2. The well-browned,
• STRIKING
  a. & n. from Strike, v. Striking distance, the distance through which an object can be reached by striking; the distance at which a force is effective when directed to a particular object. -- Striking plate. The plate against which the latch of
• CRACKNEL
  A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.
• CRACKLEWARE
  See 3
• CRACK-LOO; CRACKALOO
  A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor.
• CRACKER
  The pintail duck. 7. pl. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick
• VIOLENTLY
  In a violent manner.
• STRIKLE
  See STRICKLE
• CRACKED
  1. Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat. 2. Crack-brained.
• RANDOM
  The direction of a rake-vein. Raymond. (more info) a randon, de randon, violently, suddenly, rapidly, prob. of German origin; cf. G. rand edge, border, OHG. rant shield, edge of a shield, 1. Force; violence. For courageously the two kings newly
• STRIKER
  1. One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge. 2. A harpoon; also, a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• HALF-CRACKED
  Half-demented; half-witted.
• OVERSTRIKE
  To strike beyond.
• THUNDERSTRIKE
  1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.
• TEN-STRIKE
  A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. 2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
• JIMCRACK
  See GIMCRACK