scoriation

English

Etymology 1

The word is derived from the Latin scoria, which means slag or dross, and thus is related to the English words scoria and scorify, which both refer to the waste left over from smelting ore.

Noun

scoriation (plural scoriations)

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

Noun

scoriation (plural scoriations)

  1. aphetic form of excoriation

References
  • 2002, Arp, Don Jr. "BATTLEFIELD ODDITIES: EXPLAINING TWO MINIÉ BALLS FROM PEA RIDGE NATIONAL MILITARY PARK." The Nebraska Anthropologist. Vol. 17, Number 1. 2001-2002

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