frushing

Verb

frush (third-person singular simple present frushes, present participle frushing, simple past and past participle frushed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.
   • Rinaldo's armor frush'd and hack'd they had,
     Oft pierced through, with blood besmeared new.1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xlviii
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To charge, rush violently.
   • And than they fruyshed forth all at onys, of the bourelyest knyghtes that ever brake brede, with mo than fyve hondred at the formyst frunte [...].1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...
3. (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

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