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▪ I. crushing, vbl. n.|ˈkrʌʃɪŋ|
[f. crush v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. crush.
†1. Crashing, smashing: see crush v. 1. Obs.
2. Compressing violently so as to bruise or destroy; violent pressure or squeezing. Also fig.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Froissement, a crushing in pieces. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 195 The crushing..and the overwhelming of his afflicted Servants. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 6 Cornelius Seaman lost his Ship by the squeezing and crushing together of the Ice. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xviii. 123 The sound produced by the crushing of the fragments. 1890Spectator 31 May, All delays, discomforts and crushings were met with good⁓humour.
3. spec. Bruising or comminution of ore, quartz, oil-seeds, etc. for economic purposes; also attrib. and comb., as crushing-machine, crushing-mill, crushing-seed, etc.
1759Smeaton in Phil. Trans. LI. 168 The crushing of rape seed. 1796Hull Advertiser 10 Sept. 2/2 Fifty lasts of fine Koningsburg Crushing Linseed. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxxii. (ed. 3) 337 The Crushing Mill, used in Cornwall and other mining countries. 1872Raymond Statist. Mines 43 The crushing for the year is 9,782 tons of quartz.
▪ II. ˈcrushing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That crushes; bruising, overwhelming, etc.
1577Whetstone in Gascoigne's Steel Glas (Arb.) 22 Crusshing care. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. v. 34 Crushing penurie. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 206 The blow must be quick, and crushing. 1876Trevelyan Macaulay II. ix. 137 A..crushing censure upon Lord Ellenborough. |