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Word Meanings - CRASHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.

Related words: (words related to CRASHING)

  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • FALLALS; FAL-LALS
    Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
  • HILLSIDE
    The side or declivity of a hill.
  • SHALLOP
    A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
  • BREAKABLE
    Capable of being broken.
  • THEREAGAIN
    In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
  • FALLER
    A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • THERETO
    1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
  • THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
    Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
  • THEREOUT
    1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
  • FALLOW
    Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
  • GREAT-GRANDSON
    A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
    The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
  • THEREUNDER
    Under that or this.
  • FALLOPIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
  • SHALLOON
    A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
  • SHALLOW-BRAINED
    Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
  • FALLENCY
    An exception. Jer. Taylor.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • LAWBREAKER
    One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
  • INGREAT
    To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
  • UNFALLIBLE
    Infallible. Shak.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • MISFALL
    To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
  • OATHBREAKING
    The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak

 

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