From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bash \Bash\, v. t. & i. [OE. baschen, baissen. See Abash.] To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] His countenance was bold and bashed not. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bash \Bash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bashing.] [Perh. of imitative origin; or cf. Dan. baske to strike, bask a blow, Sw. basa to beat, bas a beating.] To strike heavily; to beat; to crush. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Hall Caine. [1913 Webster] Bash her open with a rock. --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bash \Bash\, n. 1. a forceful blow, especially one that does damage to its target. [PJC] 2. a elaborate or lively social gathering or party. [PJC] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: bash n 1: a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head" [syn: knock, bash, bang, smash, belt] 2: an uproarious party [syn: bash, do, brawl] v 1: hit hard [syn: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]: bash Bourne Again SHell. GNU's command interpreter for Unix. Bash is a Posix-compatible shell with full Bourne shell syntax, and some C shell commands built in. The Bourne Again Shell supports Emacs-style command-line editing, job control, functions, and on-line help. Written by Brian Fox of UCSB. The latest version is 1.14.1. It includes a yacc parser, the interpreter and documentation. {(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/bash-1.14.1.tar.gz)} or from a GNU archive site. E-mail: <bug-bash@gnu.org>. Usenet newsgroup: news:gnu.bash.bug. (1994-07-15)