Meaning of scoriation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. aphetic form of excoriation
2. A sloppily cut groove, furrow, or trench, characterised by the presence of refuse material from which it was cut.
3. An anthropological term used to describe grooves or other similar markings on bullets exclusively. Scoriation is a joining of "scoring" and "striation."

Examples

“"The tracks of his father's foot were gone. Where they had been were now long, watercloudy scoriations resembling the sporadic course of a Lilliputian mowing machine." ~William Faulkner”

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