dial. [app. onomatopoetic: cf. SMASH.
Notwithstanding the curiously close resemblance in sense, the commonly alleged derivation from It. stramazzare (see STRAMAZON) is out of the question.]
(See quot. 1788.)
1788. W. H. Marshall, Yorksh., II. 356. To Stramash; to crush, or break irreparably; to destroy.
1880. J. F. S. Gordon, Chron. Keith, 70. Choking the lums with a divot (which occasionally stramashed the Tea Pots).
