| 释义 |
† to-frush, v. Obs.
[ME. to-frusche(n, f. to-2 + frusch(e frush v. (from French).]
trans. To smash or break to pieces; also, to drive violently into something as with a blow or blows.
c1300Havelok 1993 Was non..þat he ne dede alto-cruhsse, And alto-shiuere, and alto-frusshe. a1330Syr Degarre 381 Ac he..with his bat leid up an, And al to frusst him ech a bon. 1375Barbour Bruce viii. 303 Speris þat to-fruschyt war. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 106 Here y dwelle all to-ffrushyd, & y haue gret myster of pytee. 1513Douglas æneis ii. viii. [vii.] 40 Hewit, hackit, smate doun, and all to fruschit. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 717/2 Christ shall come down..and all to frush & to breke those earthlye wretched heretikes like a sort of earthen pottes. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. ii. xii. (1589) 51 Who, lying all to frusshed thus, the sonne of Ioue did bring His cruell Iades. |