crash

A coarse kind of linen cloth used for towels.

Margaret was up early in the morning. She washed at the cistern, and wiped herself on a coarse crash towel.--Margaret, p. 17.

Crash
·noun Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used ·esp. for towels. II. Crash ·vt To break in pieces vi...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to crash
To kill. Crash that cull; kill that fellow. CANT. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
crash
the noise of any thing when it breaks. N. Down fell the table and crash went the crockery. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose