rushingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈrʌʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈrəʃɪŋ/

Forms: see rush v.² and -ing suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 ruscheing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < rush v.² + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action or an act of running or moving with great speed or force; the noise produced by some rapid or violent movement. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > rushing sound

rushinga1398

rusha1500

whither?a1505

whithering1787

rushingness1833

whoop1840

whoo1842

whooping1884

whooing1890

whoof1898

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > violent

rushinga1398

frushing1598

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 289^v He [A lion] dredeþ noyse and russhyng of wheoles.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 7350 Þare salle be swilk rareyng and ruschyng And raumpyng of devels.

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 5921 (MED) The hors he held for al his russhing..So that thurgh his holding hard, The sted arerud and fel bakward.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1235 There was but russhynge and rydynge, foynynge and strykynge.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith xiv. 13 They..made a greate russzhinge to wake him vp, because they thought with the noyse to haue raised him.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxix^v The two kynges had their speres ready, then began the rushyng of speres.

1579 T. Rogers tr. J. Habermann Enimie of Securitie 127 Let not their rushings, ragings, and misrule disquiet vs.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xvii. 12 The rushing of nations, that make a rushing, like the rushing of mighty waters.

a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 824 Our..careless rushings into his presence in Worship.

1738 A. Hill Let. 11 May in Pope Corr. (1956) IV. 98 The rushing of a watery sound—a kind of hollow, washy murmur, like the workings of a surfy tide.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Sea The rushing up continually of such a body of water makes a roundish cavity.

1797 S. T. Coleridge Osorio iii. i. 11 What ear unstun'd..might bear up against The rushing of your congregated wings?

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. iii. 2 Hark! 'tis the rushing of a wind that sweeps Earth and the ocean.

1843 M. G. Brooks Idomen 167 The rushing of over-swollen waves.

1898 Q. Rev. Apr. 429 We buried those whom the..brute had slain in his rushings.

1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree v. 62 The rushing of the water could not quite drown the voice of a blackbird singing and swaying recklessly on the windy willow-top.

1957 L. de Wohl Glorious Folly xxvii. 281 The atrium again, the rushing of feet, luggage bundled on the second carriage.

1970 T. Williams Let. 29 Sept. in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 210 He is as happy as a clam on ice, although, in his mad rushings here and there, he will suddenly cry out: ‘Another stroke!’

1997 B. McCrea et al. S. Afr.: Rough Guide 546 The rushing of the water below creates a hypnotic rhythm.

2. North American College slang.

a. The action of participating in an (organized) fight or other contest of strength between first and second year students. Cf. rush n.² 9a. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1856 Yale Lit. Mag. Jan. 107 It includes, too, a proclivity to football, singing, boating, and wicket, and sometimes, must we add, to pitching cents, to cards and billiards, and, perhaps, ‘rushing’—we mean, of course, ‘chapel rushing’.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 236 ‘Hazing’, ‘rushing’, secret societies.., are unknown at Oxford and Cambridge.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cii. 454 Sophomores and freshmen have a whimsical habit of meeting one another in dense masses and trying which can push the other aside on the stairs or path. This is called ‘rushing’.

1907 Hamilton Literary Mag. Dec. 149 Chapel rushing was a part of College tradition, and previous attempts to put an end to it only made it more interesting.

2005 E. R. Salvini H. Baker 27 Rushing was later prohibited when a freshman was trampled to death during Fitzgerald's junior year.

b. The process of entertaining a candidate or candidates for fraternities and sororities in order to assess their suitability for membership. Cf. rush v.² 9b(a).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > treat or entertainment > for candidate for club

rushing1880

rush1885

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student > treatment of

salting1570

rushing1880

1880 Scroll Nov. 52/1 The manipulation for examining and selecting freshmen for fraternity membership is called at Williams, trotting; at Amherst, campaigning; at Weslyan, cultivating; at Cornell, rushing; at Bowdoin, fishing; at N.Y. City College, soaking.

1899 Beta Theta Pi Nov. 125 It has been the custom to begin the rushing as soon as the men returned in the fall.

1914 Anchora of Delta Gamma Nov. 55 No rushing was allowed during school hours or on Sunday.

1929 Daily Maroon (Univ. Chicago) 8 Oct. 2/1 No pledges are made until the fourth day of rushing week.

1942 College Topics (Univ. Virginia) 12 Oct. 1/2 Rushing got underway and first year-men sought in the darkness for the various fraternity houses.

1957 ‘A. Bannon’ Odd Girl Out (2001) i. 5 Are you going to go through rushing, Laur?

2005 R. Klein Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue v. 99 The fraternity rushing had begun in earnest, with brothers having coffee with the freshmen they were interested in.

3. Croquet. The action of roqueting a ball, typically with some force. Cf. rush v.² 10.Recorded earliest in attributive use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > types of play

roquet1859

roqueting1863

rushing1868

croquet1874

peeling1899

peel1907

wiring1966

1868 W. J. Whitmore Croquet Tactics ii. 20 To make a rushing roquet is to hit another ball with force.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 609/1 The learner should next practise rushing, i.e., roqueting with such force as to move the ball aimed at some distance.

1907 Badminton Mag. 25 200 The great error that is committed by those inexperienced in the art of rushing is the fact that they jump over the ball they desire to rush.

1966 D. Miller & R. Thorp Croquet & How to play It iii. 40 Rushing is of course more difficult than roqueting because it requires greater accuracy for success.

1989 D. L. Gaunt Plus One on Time iii. 45 Understand the major rules of croquet. Examples are roquets, croquets, order of hoops,..rushing, doubles.

4. American Football and Rugby. In defensive play: the action of running towards and attempting to tackle or hinder the opposing team's quarterback or kicker (cf. pass rushing n.); also (in offensive play) the action of carrying the ball on a running play. Cf. rush v.² 11.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres

rush1857

punt-out1861

goal-kicking1871

safety1879

safety touchdown1879

scrimmage1880

rushing1882

safety touch1884

touchback1884

forward pass1890

run1890

blocking1891

signal1891

fake1893

onside kick1895

tandem-play1895

pass play1896

spiral1896

shift1901

end run1902

straight-arm1903

quarterback sneak1904

runback1905

roughing1906

Minnesota shift1910

quarterbacking1910

snap-back1910

pickoff1912

punt return1914

screen forward pass1915

screen pass1920

power play1921

sneak1921

passback1922

snap1922

defence1923

reverse1924

carry1927

lateral1927

stiff-arm1927

zone1927

zone defence1927

submarine charge1928

squib1929

block1931

pass rushing1933

safetying1933

trap play1933

end-around1934

straight-arming1934

trap1935

mousetrap1936

buttonhook1938

blitzing1940

hand-off1940

pitchout1946

slant1947

strike1947

draw play1948

shovel pass1948

bootleg1949

option1950

red dog1950

red-dogging1951

rollout1951

submarine1952

sleeper pass1954

draw1956

bomb1960

swing pass1960

pass rush1962

blitz1963

spearing1964

onsides kick1965

takeaway1967

quarterback sack1968

smash-mouth1968

veer1968

turn-over1969

bump-and-run1970

scramble1971

sack1972

nose tackle1975

nickel1979

pressure1981

1882 N.Y. Times 3 Dec. 7/4 The Yale men then by powerful rushing and some muffing on Harvard's part, forced the crimson to make a second safety touch-down.

1921 C. D. Daly Amer. Football ix. 163 There is a combination of kicking and rushing which can be played against a team having a superior kicker.

1937 Times 17 Dec. 6/1 The School's forwards did some good rushing.

1966 K. Rote & J. Winter Lang. Pro Football iii. 134/2 Rushing,..offensive yardage gained by running with ball.

2008 M. A. Sommers Football in Big 12 32 He had earned a reputation as a dual-threat quarterback, capable of advancing the ball by passing or rushing.

Compounds

rushing bases n. any of various children's chasing games similar to tag; esp. = King Caesar at king n. 6.

ΚΠ

1844 S. Williams Boy's Treasury Sports 55 (heading) Rushing bases.

1849 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 36 King Cæsar,..the ground is divided into three parts... The spaces at the end, called bases, being much smaller than the middle one. The..players..all go into one of the bases, except ‘the King’..; he places himself..between the two bases, and the others run from base to base... Should the King..succeed in intercepting one of them, he claps him on the head with his hand three times, and each time repeats the words, ‘I crown thee, King Cæsar’... This game is sometimes called ‘Rushing Bases’.

1911 Amer. Physical Educ. Rev. Jan. 45 A certain group of fourteen games,..scattered through the volume in alphabetical order under the names hill dill, rushing bases, pom-pom pullaway, black tom, Chinese wall, hip, puss in the circle, bound hands, pinch-o, day and night, red lion, andy over, trades and dare base.

1992 K. Grover Hard at Play 242/1 Pom-Pom-Pull-Away (also Pull Away; Rushing Bases).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rushingn.²

Brit.

/ˈrʌʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈrəʃɪŋ/

Forms: see rush n.¹ and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < rush v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of gathering rushes. Only in phrase to go a-rushing. rare.

ΚΠ

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 692/2 Go no more a rysshynge Malyn.

1896 S. Baring-Gould Dartmoor Idylls 234 Don't y' go a-rushing, maids, in May.

1925 S. Baring-Gould Further Reminisc. 134 Formerly..the village girls..collecting rushes for lights,..singing ‘Don't you go a rushing’.

2. The covering of the seat of a chair, etc., using rushes. Also: the material formed by this process.

ΚΠ

1886 Bristol Mercury 22 Oct. 8/3 24 blind women and girls at work—knitting, chair caning and rushing, and basket making.

1915 S. J. Macleod Housekeeper's Handbk. Cleaning xii. 104 There is a passably good substitute for rushing..that is, to carry out the same process with jute.

1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 104/3 How to Repair Chair Seats... Caning in our April, 1923, and rushing in our November, 1924, issue.

2010 Shaker Furniture (Built to Last) 38 Slip the padding under the rushing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rushingadj.

Brit.

/ˈrʌʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈrəʃɪŋ/

Forms: see rush v.² and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush v.², -ing suffix².

Etymology: < rush v.² + -ing suffix².

a. Of a thing, esp. the wind, water, etc.: that moves or flows with force or rapidity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving swiftly and violently

brushing1513

rushing1557

sweeping1611

rushling1632

1557 Bible (Whittingham) Acts ii. 2 And sodenly there came a sounde from heauen, as it had bene of a russhing and mighty winde.

1628 W. Mure tr. R. Boyd Spirituall Hymne sig. A8^v Frightfull cryes..Encrease the noise of rushing skies.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 97 Rushing sound Of onset ended soon each milder thought.

1712 A. Pope tr. Statius Thebais in Misc. Poems 34 The rushing Winds..With equal Rage their airy Quarrel try, And win by turns the Kingdoms of the Sky.

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xiv. 8 Nor without ropes thy keel can longer brave The rushing fury of th' imperious wave.

1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xxv. 409 Around the rushing keel The waters sing.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xx. 199 Tortured by these thoughts he carried monotony with him, through the rushing landscape.

1925 E. M. Brent-Dyer School at Chalet xxv. 321 They sallied out, and strolled along by the banks of the rushing stream.

1973 Jet 4 Jan. 22 The words were swept away by the rushing wind.

2005 New Yorker 10 Jan. 74/1 A rushing piano part swept the music off to a realm somewhere between Rachmaninoff and ragtime.

b. Of a person or animal: that moves or acts with great speed, hurry, or haste; (also) that charges or attacks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective]

hiefulc1230

hastyc1330

swift1340

graithfula1400

yedera1400

short1480

speedy1529

expedite1540

quick1548

postingc1553

hasting1566

rushing1694

nimble1707

presto1767

presto change1835

quick-action1887

presto changeo1923

knife-edge1969

light speed1987

1694 Ann. Misc. 10 Watch the quick motions of the frisking Tail, Then serve their fury with the rushing Male.

1726 A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 99 The wary chief the rushing foe represt.

1792 Idyllia (new ed.) I. 308 If his soul..meet not the fury of the rushing host.

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii III. v. iv. 245 He glanced his eyes over the rolling and rushing crowd.

1857 National Rev. July 190 His mind must be the mind of a codifier. A rushing man, like Lord Brougham, must not hope to have this.

1905 Painter & Decorator Sept. 561/1 It is as if you stumbled and fell amid a rushing multitude.

1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee iii. 50 Double-charges of canister shot cut down the rushing warriors, and the attack failed.

2005 G. Jones Men of Tomorrow iv. 67 Every night, once he was off the street and out of the rushing crowds, he went into his room to draw.

2. U.S. Of trade, business, etc.: highly successful; extremely healthy, booming. Frequently in to do a rushing business.

ΚΠ

1847 J. L. Barton Commerce of Lakes 54 The spring and fall months are the times when the business is rushing.

1881 W. G. Marshall Through Amer. (1882) 93 Each and all of these have done a ‘rushing’ business during the past year.

1915 N.Y. World 7 Aug. 1/3 All this time the soda-water stands were doing a rushing business.

1951 Billboard 10 Nov. 95/3 Firm is doing a rushing trade in its plastic line.

1970 W. M. Estes Another Part of House xvi. 200 The Elks Club was having a dance upstairs and business was rushing.

2000 Sunday News (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 13 Feb. p7 The store was doing a rushing business in gloves, neck-ups, face masks and hats.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹a1398

n.²1530

adj.1557

单词	rushing
释义	rushingn.¹ Brit. /ˈrʌʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrəʃɪŋ/ Forms: see rush v.² and -ing suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 ruscheing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < rush v.² + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action or an act of running or moving with great speed or force; the noise produced by some rapid or violent movement. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > rushing sound rushinga1398 rusha1500 whither?a1505 whithering1787 rushingness1833 whoop1840 whoo1842 whooping1884 whooing1890 whoof1898 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > violent rushinga1398 frushing1598 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 289^v He [A lion] dredeþ noyse and russhyng of wheoles. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 7350 Þare salle be swilk rareyng and ruschyng And raumpyng of devels. a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 5921 (MED) The hors he held for al his russhing..So that thurgh his holding hard, The sted arerud and fel bakward. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1235 There was but russhynge and rydynge, foynynge and strykynge. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith xiv. 13 They..made a greate russzhinge to wake him vp, because they thought with the noyse to haue raised him. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxix^v The two kynges had their speres ready, then began the rushyng of speres. 1579 T. Rogers tr. J. Habermann Enimie of Securitie 127 Let not their rushings, ragings, and misrule disquiet vs. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xvii. 12 The rushing of nations, that make a rushing, like the rushing of mighty waters. View more context for this quotation a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 824 Our..careless rushings into his presence in Worship. 1738 A. Hill Let. 11 May in Pope Corr. (1956) IV. 98 The rushing of a watery sound—a kind of hollow, washy murmur, like the workings of a surfy tide. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Sea The rushing up continually of such a body of water makes a roundish cavity. 1797 S. T. Coleridge Osorio iii. i. 11 What ear unstun'd..might bear up against The rushing of your congregated wings? 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. iii. 2 Hark! 'tis the rushing of a wind that sweeps Earth and the ocean. 1843 M. G. Brooks Idomen 167 The rushing of over-swollen waves. 1898 Q. Rev. Apr. 429 We buried those whom the..brute had slain in his rushings. 1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree v. 62 The rushing of the water could not quite drown the voice of a blackbird singing and swaying recklessly on the windy willow-top. 1957 L. de Wohl Glorious Folly xxvii. 281 The atrium again, the rushing of feet, luggage bundled on the second carriage. 1970 T. Williams Let. 29 Sept. in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 210 He is as happy as a clam on ice, although, in his mad rushings here and there, he will suddenly cry out: ‘Another stroke!’ 1997 B. McCrea et al. S. Afr.: Rough Guide 546 The rushing of the water below creates a hypnotic rhythm. 2. North American College slang. a. The action of participating in an (organized) fight or other contest of strength between first and second year students. Cf. rush n.² 9a. Now historical. ΚΠ 1856 Yale Lit. Mag. Jan. 107 It includes, too, a proclivity to football, singing, boating, and wicket, and sometimes, must we add, to pitching cents, to cards and billiards, and, perhaps, ‘rushing’—we mean, of course, ‘chapel rushing’. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 236 ‘Hazing’, ‘rushing’, secret societies.., are unknown at Oxford and Cambridge. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cii. 454 Sophomores and freshmen have a whimsical habit of meeting one another in dense masses and trying which can push the other aside on the stairs or path. This is called ‘rushing’. 1907 Hamilton Literary Mag. Dec. 149 Chapel rushing was a part of College tradition, and previous attempts to put an end to it only made it more interesting. 2005 E. R. Salvini H. Baker 27 Rushing was later prohibited when a freshman was trampled to death during Fitzgerald's junior year. b. The process of entertaining a candidate or candidates for fraternities and sororities in order to assess their suitability for membership. Cf. rush v.² 9b(a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > treat or entertainment > for candidate for club rushing1880 rush1885 society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student > treatment of salting1570 rushing1880 1880 Scroll Nov. 52/1 The manipulation for examining and selecting freshmen for fraternity membership is called at Williams, trotting; at Amherst, campaigning; at Weslyan, cultivating; at Cornell, rushing; at Bowdoin, fishing; at N.Y. City College, soaking. 1899 Beta Theta Pi Nov. 125 It has been the custom to begin the rushing as soon as the men returned in the fall. 1914 Anchora of Delta Gamma Nov. 55 No rushing was allowed during school hours or on Sunday. 1929 Daily Maroon (Univ. Chicago) 8 Oct. 2/1 No pledges are made until the fourth day of rushing week. 1942 College Topics (Univ. Virginia) 12 Oct. 1/2 Rushing got underway and first year-men sought in the darkness for the various fraternity houses. 1957 ‘A. Bannon’ Odd Girl Out (2001) i. 5 Are you going to go through rushing, Laur? 2005 R. Klein Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue v. 99 The fraternity rushing had begun in earnest, with brothers having coffee with the freshmen they were interested in. 3. Croquet. The action of roqueting a ball, typically with some force. Cf. rush v.² 10.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > types of play roquet1859 roqueting1863 rushing1868 croquet1874 peeling1899 peel1907 wiring1966 1868 W. J. Whitmore Croquet Tactics ii. 20 To make a rushing roquet is to hit another ball with force. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 609/1 The learner should next practise rushing, i.e., roqueting with such force as to move the ball aimed at some distance. 1907 Badminton Mag. 25 200 The great error that is committed by those inexperienced in the art of rushing is the fact that they jump over the ball they desire to rush. 1966 D. Miller & R. Thorp Croquet & How to play It iii. 40 Rushing is of course more difficult than roqueting because it requires greater accuracy for success. 1989 D. L. Gaunt Plus One on Time iii. 45 Understand the major rules of croquet. Examples are roquets, croquets, order of hoops,..rushing, doubles. 4. American Football and Rugby. In defensive play: the action of running towards and attempting to tackle or hinder the opposing team's quarterback or kicker (cf. pass rushing n.); also (in offensive play) the action of carrying the ball on a running play. Cf. rush v.² 11. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres rush1857 punt-out1861 goal-kicking1871 safety1879 safety touchdown1879 scrimmage1880 rushing1882 safety touch1884 touchback1884 forward pass1890 run1890 blocking1891 signal1891 fake1893 onside kick1895 tandem-play1895 pass play1896 spiral1896 shift1901 end run1902 straight-arm1903 quarterback sneak1904 runback1905 roughing1906 Minnesota shift1910 quarterbacking1910 snap-back1910 pickoff1912 punt return1914 screen forward pass1915 screen pass1920 power play1921 sneak1921 passback1922 snap1922 defence1923 reverse1924 carry1927 lateral1927 stiff-arm1927 zone1927 zone defence1927 submarine charge1928 squib1929 block1931 pass rushing1933 safetying1933 trap play1933 end-around1934 straight-arming1934 trap1935 mousetrap1936 buttonhook1938 blitzing1940 hand-off1940 pitchout1946 slant1947 strike1947 draw play1948 shovel pass1948 bootleg1949 option1950 red dog1950 red-dogging1951 rollout1951 submarine1952 sleeper pass1954 draw1956 bomb1960 swing pass1960 pass rush1962 blitz1963 spearing1964 onsides kick1965 takeaway1967 quarterback sack1968 smash-mouth1968 veer1968 turn-over1969 bump-and-run1970 scramble1971 sack1972 nose tackle1975 nickel1979 pressure1981 1882 N.Y. Times 3 Dec. 7/4 The Yale men then by powerful rushing and some muffing on Harvard's part, forced the crimson to make a second safety touch-down. 1921 C. D. Daly Amer. Football ix. 163 There is a combination of kicking and rushing which can be played against a team having a superior kicker. 1937 Times 17 Dec. 6/1 The School's forwards did some good rushing. 1966 K. Rote & J. Winter Lang. Pro Football iii. 134/2 Rushing,..offensive yardage gained by running with ball. 2008 M. A. Sommers Football in Big 12 32 He had earned a reputation as a dual-threat quarterback, capable of advancing the ball by passing or rushing. Compounds rushing bases n. any of various children's chasing games similar to tag; esp. = King Caesar at king n. 6. ΚΠ 1844 S. Williams Boy's Treasury Sports 55 (heading) Rushing bases. 1849 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 36 King Cæsar,..the ground is divided into three parts... The spaces at the end, called bases, being much smaller than the middle one. The..players..all go into one of the bases, except ‘the King’..; he places himself..between the two bases, and the others run from base to base... Should the King..succeed in intercepting one of them, he claps him on the head with his hand three times, and each time repeats the words, ‘I crown thee, King Cæsar’... This game is sometimes called ‘Rushing Bases’. 1911 Amer. Physical Educ. Rev. Jan. 45 A certain group of fourteen games,..scattered through the volume in alphabetical order under the names hill dill, rushing bases, pom-pom pullaway, black tom, Chinese wall, hip, puss in the circle, bound hands, pinch-o, day and night, red lion, andy over, trades and dare base. 1992 K. Grover Hard at Play 242/1 Pom-Pom-Pull-Away (also Pull Away; Rushing Bases). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rushingn.² Brit. /ˈrʌʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrəʃɪŋ/ Forms: see rush n.¹ and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < rush v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of gathering rushes. Only in phrase to go a-rushing. rare. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 692/2 Go no more a rysshynge Malyn. 1896 S. Baring-Gould Dartmoor Idylls 234 Don't y' go a-rushing, maids, in May. 1925 S. Baring-Gould Further Reminisc. 134 Formerly..the village girls..collecting rushes for lights,..singing ‘Don't you go a rushing’. 2. The covering of the seat of a chair, etc., using rushes. Also: the material formed by this process. ΚΠ 1886 Bristol Mercury 22 Oct. 8/3 24 blind women and girls at work—knitting, chair caning and rushing, and basket making. 1915 S. J. Macleod Housekeeper's Handbk. Cleaning xii. 104 There is a passably good substitute for rushing..that is, to carry out the same process with jute. 1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 104/3 How to Repair Chair Seats... Caning in our April, 1923, and rushing in our November, 1924, issue. 2010 Shaker Furniture (Built to Last) 38 Slip the padding under the rushing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rushingadj. Brit. /ˈrʌʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrəʃɪŋ/ Forms: see rush v.² and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush v.², -ing suffix². Etymology: < rush v.² + -ing suffix². 1. a. Of a thing, esp. the wind, water, etc.: that moves or flows with force or rapidity. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving swiftly and violently brushing1513 rushing1557 sweeping1611 rushling1632 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Acts ii. 2 And sodenly there came a sounde from heauen, as it had bene of a russhing and mighty winde. 1628 W. Mure tr. R. Boyd Spirituall Hymne sig. A8^v Frightfull cryes..Encrease the noise of rushing skies. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 97 Rushing sound Of onset ended soon each milder thought. View more context for this quotation 1712 A. Pope tr. Statius Thebais in Misc. Poems 34 The rushing Winds..With equal Rage their airy Quarrel try, And win by turns the Kingdoms of the Sky. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xiv. 8 Nor without ropes thy keel can longer brave The rushing fury of th' imperious wave. 1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xxv. 409 Around the rushing keel The waters sing. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xx. 199 Tortured by these thoughts he carried monotony with him, through the rushing landscape. 1925 E. M. Brent-Dyer School at Chalet xxv. 321 They sallied out, and strolled along by the banks of the rushing stream. 1973 Jet 4 Jan. 22 The words were swept away by the rushing wind. 2005 New Yorker 10 Jan. 74/1 A rushing piano part swept the music off to a realm somewhere between Rachmaninoff and ragtime. b. Of a person or animal: that moves or acts with great speed, hurry, or haste; (also) that charges or attacks. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] hiefulc1230 hastyc1330 swift1340 graithfula1400 yedera1400 short1480 speedy1529 expedite1540 quick1548 postingc1553 hasting1566 rushing1694 nimble1707 presto1767 presto change1835 quick-action1887 presto changeo1923 knife-edge1969 light speed1987 1694 Ann. Misc. 10 Watch the quick motions of the frisking Tail, Then serve their fury with the rushing Male. 1726 A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 99 The wary chief the rushing foe represt. 1792 Idyllia (new ed.) I. 308 If his soul..meet not the fury of the rushing host. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii III. v. iv. 245 He glanced his eyes over the rolling and rushing crowd. 1857 National Rev. July 190 His mind must be the mind of a codifier. A rushing man, like Lord Brougham, must not hope to have this. 1905 Painter & Decorator Sept. 561/1 It is as if you stumbled and fell amid a rushing multitude. 1970 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee iii. 50 Double-charges of canister shot cut down the rushing warriors, and the attack failed. 2005 G. Jones Men of Tomorrow iv. 67 Every night, once he was off the street and out of the rushing crowds, he went into his room to draw. 2. U.S. Of trade, business, etc.: highly successful; extremely healthy, booming. Frequently in to do a rushing business. ΚΠ 1847 J. L. Barton Commerce of Lakes 54 The spring and fall months are the times when the business is rushing. 1881 W. G. Marshall Through Amer. (1882) 93 Each and all of these have done a ‘rushing’ business during the past year. 1915 N.Y. World 7 Aug. 1/3 All this time the soda-water stands were doing a rushing business. 1951 Billboard 10 Nov. 95/3 Firm is doing a rushing trade in its plastic line. 1970 W. M. Estes Another Part of House xvi. 200 The Elks Club was having a dance upstairs and business was rushing. 2000 Sunday News (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 13 Feb. p7 The store was doing a rushing business in gloves, neck-ups, face masks and hats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1398n.²1530adj.1557
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