Noah Webster
Squash
SQUASH, verb transitive [Latin] To crush; to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass.
SQUASH, noun
1. Someting soft an deasily crushed.
2. [Gr.] A plant of the genus Cucurbita, and its fruit; a culinary vegetable.
3. Something unripe or soft; in contempt.
This squash this gentleman.
4. A sudden fall of a heavy soft body.
5. A shock of soft bodies.
My fall was stoppd by a terrible squash [Vulgar.]