Noah Webster
Slash
SLASH, verb transitive
1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long cuts.
2. To lash.
SLASH, verb intransitive To strike violently and at random with a sword, hanger or other edger instrument; to lay about one with blows. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades.
SLASH, noun A long cut; a cut made at random.