crushings

Noun

crushing (countable and uncountable, plural crushings)

1. The action of the verb to crush.
2. A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
3. (in plural) Crushed material.
   • oilseed crushings
4. The act of subjecting sugarcane to crushing.
   • Mr. Holtze speaks with feeling upon this subject. His own experience had shown him the folly of planting sugar in dry soil, at a distance from water; the natural consequence was that, though the cane grew on the ironstone ridges of Palmerston, it would not throw up sufficient juice to make a good...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 265

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