† To-quash

v. Obs. Also 4 to-quassen. [f. TO-² + ME. quaschen, QUASH v.] trans. To crush or squash to pieces.

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c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xlviii. (Juliana), 160. & syne hir banys sa to-quassyt, Þat þe self merch out passyt.

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1494. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 598. A gunne was leuellyd out of the cytie … whiche brake y^e tymber or stone of the wyndowe with suche vyolence, that the pecys therof all to quasshed y^e face of the noble erle.

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1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus. (ed. 2), 126. Some had their braines dasht out, some their heades all to quasht.

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