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.
c. 1300. Havelok, 1993. Was non … þat he ne dede alto-cruhsse, And alto-shiuere, and alto-frusshe.
c. 1330. Syr Degarre, 381. Ac he … with his bat leid up an, And al to frusst him ech a bon.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VIII. 303. Speris þat to-fruschyt war.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 106. Here y dwelle all to-ffrushyd, & y haue gret myster of pytee.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, II. viii. [vii.] 40. Hewit, hackit, smate doun, and all to fruschit.
1532. More, 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.
1586. Warner, Alb. Eng., II. xii. (1589), 51. Who, lying all to frusshed thus, the sonne of Ioue did bring His cruell lades.
