Meanings of smaller wounds in English

The sousaphone bell now sported five golf-ball-sized holes and a peppering of smaller wounds.

N.B.-Thenumerous smaller wounds, burns, &c., on the face and body are not taken into account.

If I'd only been more like Hazel, I sometimes reason, I would have made it through girlhood with smaller wounds.

The smaller wounds, however, heal so quickly that the evil effects of the covering may more than offset the benefits derived from its use.-R

But smaller wounds should also be treated for the smallness of the wound furnishes no sure criterion as to the future outcome of the disease.

Compensation to men receiving smaller wounds; and especial reward to such of the "chiefs, officers, and common men" as might specially distinguish themselves.

Smaller wounds sometimes heal faster, sometimes not.