Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Squash

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Squash


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(1):

(n.) A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.

(2):

(n.) Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.

(3):

(n.) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

(4):

(v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

(5):

(n.) An American animal allied to the weasel.

(6):

(n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

(7):

(n.) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.