Crumbling ppl. a. World English Historical Dictionary

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[-ING2.] That crumbles; breaking into small particles.

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1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., II. (1586), 86 b. [That the ground] may be mellowed and made crumbling.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., I. 139. The crumbling Clods.

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1769.  Gray, Jrnl. of Tour, 5 Oct. A mass of crumbling slate.

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1861.  Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., i. (1889), 6. A venerable old front of crumbling stone fronting the street.

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