From the idea of vigour contained in 'slash'.

Scottish (Lothian) 'slash' = a great quantity of broth or any other sorbile food.

And look out for any sort of sharp-pointed nails on the road, apt to slash our tires," remarked Jerry, who had experienced so much of the trickery of the Lasher crowd that he believed there was nothing too mean or small for them to attempt.

that there was but one thing to dothat is head for the dining-room and take a slash at the cold collation of which Jeeves had spoken.

In using it they slash right and left with a quick downward stroke, drawing the blade quickly toward them as they strike.

Great Danes sometimes injure the end of the tail by hitting it against a hard substance, and those with a good carriage of tail are most liable to this because in excitement they slash it about, whereas the faulty position of the tail, curled over the back, insures immunity from harm.

"I slash on with smoke and roar..." They are in love with each other, you see, the Taube and the forty-two-centimetre shell, the "Brummer," or "Grumbler," as they call it in Germanycould anything be more piquant?

Any normal person who has seen a dance of the Aïssaouas and watched them swallow thorns and hot coals, slash themselves with knives, and roll on the floor in epilepsy must have privately longed, after the first excitement was over, to fly from the repulsive scene.

A laugh raised at the expense of a brother is enough to justify the severest slash.

She saw it shoot off the top of one wave and disappear in a white burst of spray, slash through the next and bury itself deep again, flinging a foamy cloud far to port and starboard.

Behind these again the beginnings of a cut had eaten a hole in the forest,a slashing different from the ordinary logging slash, for it ran narrowly, straight back through the timber; whereas the first thing a logger does is to cut all the merchantable timber he can reach on his limit without moving his donkey from the water.

"There, lady," he said, with a swift change of tone, "I didn't mean to slash at you.

Twas all slash, slash!

Twas all slash, slash!

It's a shame my father's knife should ever slash a haggis for the like of him.

Not far behind, the road was but a slash of fallen, writhing tree-tops.

We must discover the best methods of cutting trees and of disposing of the slash.

With one slash of his sword he cut the heads off both his sisters; San Bernardo he crucified and drove a big nail through his forehead.

Leaping up he fled after Grabble, running as he had never run before, and, even as he leapt clear of the sleeping group, the wave of Pathans broke upon it and with slash and stab assured it sound sleep for ever, all save Edward Jones, who, badly wounded as he was, survived (to the later undoing of Moussa Isa, murderer of a Brahmin boy).

Of the four Pathans who had surprised the sentry group, one, with a passing slash that re-arranged the face of Reginald Ladon Gurr, sped on after the flying sentries.

As he withdrew it, the door-keeper slashed at his abdomen, missed by a hair's-breadth, raised his arm to save his neck from a slash, and was stabbed to the heart, the knife held dagger-wise.

This lunge was a new thing to men who could only slash and stab, a new thing and a terrible, for it could not be parried save by seizing the blade and losing half a hand.

Seven slash range.

Pegan of the Slash B. By Jim Mayo, pseud. of Louis L'Amour.

As I stood by, quivering with excitement, I saw him get a slash in the shoulder.