Definition of "cratering"

Is the Minister in a position to give the results of ithe Garda investigation of the two latest allegations of deliberate crossings and craterings of Irish roads?

1971, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Parliamentary debates; official report: - Volume 256, page 602

Major craterings are quite apparent on the older and non-reworked faces of the other planets and their satellites.

2010, John Engledew, The Tungus Event, Or, The Great Siberian Meteorite, page 144

Many of the building fronts bore the pockmarks of rifle or machine gun fire; a few showed the larger craterings of aircraft cannon, and an occasional pile of nibble showed the effects of artillery or bombs.

2015, Michael Kurland, The Whenabouts of Burr, page 135

The moon also hangs as an inhospitable, cold companion in the night, a grim ball that shows many signs of craterings on its surface but not the great number we see now.

2017, Randall Dean Bryhn, The Chronicles of MU