[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That crashes; that makes a crash; that breaks, falls, etc., with a crash; see the vb.
1580. Baret, Alv., G 300. A gnashing, grinding, or crashing noise, stridor.
1697. Dryden, Æneid, XII. 464. The broad axe enters with a crashing sound.
1718. Pope, Iliad, XIII. 773. The crashing bones.
1833. H. Martineau, Cinnamon & P., iv. 69. Crashing thunder then came, peal upon peal.
1884. Athenæum, 8 March, 307/1. Remaining unmoved amid a crashing universe, and so forth.
† b. Crashing lead: an old appellation of tin, from its crackling when bent. Obs. (See CRASH v. 4.)
1678. R. R[ussell], trans. Geber, III. II. II. ii. 175. Crashing Lead, which is called White and in the Sentence of Art, Jupiter.
