[f. BRASH sb.2 + -Y1.] Of the nature of brash; broken, crumbly, fragmentary.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 106. I have eight or nine acres of brashy ground.
1857. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., xvii. (1876), 311. Calcareous grits, and shelly ‘brashy’ sandstones.
1878. Markham, Gt. Frozen Sea, iv. 51. The ice was of a soft ‘brashy’ nature … from one to three feet in thickness.
