Any of a series of religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.

A machine for crushing raw material. It consists of two vertical cones that are moved by a cam. Material is progressively crushed and falls out of the bottom.

(dated, 19th century) A large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer.

A hat that collapses, and can be carried under the arm, and, when expanded, is held in shape by springs. / Any hat not damaged by compressing.

simple past tense and past participle of crush

Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments. / Broken, saddened, depressed. / (not comparable, textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.

(cricket) A yorker bowled at the batsman's feet.

present participle of crush

That crushes; overwhelming. / Devastatingly disheartening.

The action of the verb to crush. / A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim. / (in the plural) Crushed material. / The act of subjecting sugarcane to crushing.