The Only Use of
laceration
in
Moby Dick
- Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(laceration) a cut -- especially of the skin -- and often implying that the cut was not clean, but instead left jagged edges