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To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces. Burke.

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

Wearing spatterdashes. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Coverings for the legs, to protect them from water and mud; long gaiters.

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.

One who, or that which, splashes.

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

Uproar. Jamieson.

Cash paid or ready for payment at once upon delivery of property purchased.

To crush; to quash; to squash. [Colloq. or Slang, Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

an unripe pod of pease. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. Shak.

One who, or that which, squashes.

The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.

Easily squashed; soft.

A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]

See Succotash. Bartlett.

An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. Moxon. Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.