[f. CRASH v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CRASH, q.v.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 100. Cracchynge of tethe.
c. 1450. Merlin, 155. The crassinge of speres.
1579. Gosson, Sch. Abuse (Arb.), 55. The Byrde Trochilus with crashing of her bil awakes the Crocodile.
1786. trans. Beckford’s Vathek (1868), 46. The crashing of bones.
1847. L. Hunt, Men, Women, & B., I. xii. 212. The horrible crashing of the tempest.
