pash

1) A crash or heavy fall.

1677 as I was preaching there was suddenly a pash of a chamber floore down into the room, Northowram. The verb was to smash or cause to break by a violent movement: 1736 Joseph Vickars ... had struck up his heels and had like to have pash’t out his brains, Bradford.

dates 1677 1736

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