Crashing ppl. a. World English Historical Dictionary

Crashing ppl. a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Crashing ppl. a.

[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That crashes; that makes a crash; that breaks, falls, etc., with a crash; see the vb.

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1580.  Baret, Alv., G 300. A gnashing, grinding, or crashing noise, stridor.

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1697.  Dryden, Æneid, XII. 464. The broad axe enters with a crashing sound.

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1718.  Pope, Iliad, XIII. 773. The crashing bones.

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1833.  H. Martineau, Cinnamon & P., iv. 69. Crashing thunder then came, peal upon peal.

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1884.  Athenæum, 8 March, 307/1. Remaining unmoved amid a crashing universe, and so forth.

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  † b.  Crashing lead: an old appellation of tin, from its crackling when bent. Obs. (See CRASH v. 4.)

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1678.  R. R[ussell], trans. Geber, III. II. II. ii. 175. Crashing Lead, which is called White and in the Sentence of Art, Jupiter.

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