1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 63 Many would have the same meat..onely it must be new dressed, and dished up to the mode of Familistick hashes..by more plain and popular hands, than those of the learned Ministers.

1678 R. L'Estrange in tr. Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) Postscr. I have done in This Volume of Epistles, as a good Husband does with his Cold Meat; They are only a Hache made up of the Fragments that remain'd.

1744 Education 12 All their Dialogue was premeditate, cooked up, and served in cold and palled: Hashes of fine Sentiments; serene Decisions upon Operas; Solutions of Riddles.

1759 O. Goldsmith Enq. Present State Polite Learning xii. 168 Old pieces are revived..the public are again obliged to ruminate over those hashes of absurdity.

1822 Ladies' Monthly Museum Oct. 209 ‘London Rurality’ contains some pointed passages on cockney folly; but it is but a stale hash after all.

1860 C. Darwin in F. Darwin Life & Lett. C. Darwin (1887) II. 319 Chiefly a well-done hash of my own words.

1924 Sat. Rev. 15 Nov. 490/1 The truth is that this Diary is, and inevitably must be, a cold hash of events too familiar, which, for the time being at all events, we should all like to forget.

1972 News & Views Aug. 23 History does repeat itself, and the same stale hash that was being flung about 13 years ago is still making the scene today.

2015 E. Mordden Happiest Corpse I've ever Seen v. 117 So the book was fresh, not a warmed-up hash. But the music, mixed of chestnuts and rarities, was not fresh.

1655 in E. Mackenzie Descr. & Hist. Acct. Newcastle (1827) I. 700 The 28th Nov. 1655... Henry Hedley is likewise fined for calling William Johnson, one of the stewards slavering hash.

1724 A. Ramsay On Pride in Health (new ed.) 54 I canna thole the Clash Of this impertinent auld Hash.

1786 R. Burns Poems 199 A set o' dull, conceited Hashes.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 309 What was I wanting to say..to his honour himsel..ye muckle hash?

1836 Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders II. 163 Dinna speak o' the slush to me..; for he's a speeritless hash.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxx. 360 Ye muckle, gutsey hash, here's a Scots boot to your English hurdies!

1921 J. Ferguson Dark Geraldine iii. 64 Sometimes there's a muckle hash of a lass—a big hizzy, a' black hair, and black glowin' een.

1930 R. E. Howard Boxing Stories (2005) 31 You gotta kill me to stop me, you big hash.

1967 B. Friel Lovers (1969) 62 I hope it's a girl, like you, with blond hair like yours. 'Cos if it's a boy it'll be a bloody hash, like me.

2005 Hawick (Transcript of BBC Voices Recording, SCOTS Project Document No. 1430) Oh yin that speaks an awfu lot, oo say that hei's a hash, an hard up means oo arenae weel an no just short o cash.

1660 H. Oxinden Εἰκων Βασιλικη 7 Confound all Order and Religion quash, Of honesty and falshood make a hash.

1664 Duchess of Newcastle CCXI Sociable Lett. xvii. 29 First the Minister expounds the Scripture, and then the Women-hearers expound the Sermon; so that there are expoundings upon expoundings, and preaching upon preaching, insomuch as they make such a medly or hash of the Scripture, as certainly the right and Truth is so hidden and obscur'd, that none can find it.

1733 A. Pope Impertinent 7 The Hash of Tongues, A Pedant makes.

1747 H. Walpole Let. 23 Feb. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 202 About as like it, as my Lady Pomfret's hash of plural persons and singular verbs or infinitive moods was to Italian.

1847 Ld. Houghton Let. 21 Dec. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. ix. 402 Lord Grey has made somewhat of a hash of New Zealand and its Constitution.

1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. in U.S. I. xxii. 252 The basses and trebles, and flats and sharps, and livelys and maestosos, were jumbled together into one most horrible hash and clash of music.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 595 They therefore make a strange hash of the story.

1920 N. Munro Turned Suit in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) i. lxiii. 250 ‘It's no' a new suit at a',’ he explained, irritably. ‘It's my auld yin turned. The wife said she'd dae't as easy as onything, and she's made a fair hash o' the job!’

1940 Life 30 Sept. 92/2 He had, by intently listening to lawyers who had delivered him from justice in the 43 times he had stood prisoner before city and county courts, acquired an astonishing hash of legalistic flubdub.

2003 C. Birch Turn again Home xxx. 343 ‘Well, he's made a right hash of that,’ Georgia said.

1821 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 2 250 This machine (which is denominated a scarifier or hash) consists of a cylinder with many circular cutters.

1860 Glasgow Herald 25 June 8/1 (advt.) Old Linsey Cloth, Hash Paper, Paste Board, Bones, Hair.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 4 July 5/3 ‘Hash’, the paper of lowest marketable value, can be collected and sorted without loss.

1923 Wireless Age June 57/1 Instead of receiving either class clearly they are compelled to listen to ‘hash’—a mixture of the broadcasting from the 360 and the 400-meter stations.

1957 Electronics 1 Mar. 163/3 The atmospherics..are greater in amplitude than most of the peaks of the background hash after nulling the main source of power-line noise.

1982 Giant Bk. Electronics Projects i. 27 Place ceramic disc bypasses across the diodes..to reduce hash picked up on AM broadcast sets.

2014 Tape Op Mar. 52/1 I've used Spectral Repair or Denoise to also remove AC hum and computer-induced hash.

1967 Proc. 22nd National Conf. ACM 363/1 Each Attribute-Object-Value triplet is placed once in an A-page by Attribute, and twice (possibly) in an 0-page by the hash of Object and Value and by Value.

1983 J. R. Falcone & J. R. Stinger in G. Krasner Smalltalk-80 87 Using a large prime for the cache size distributes hashes more evenly.

2005 IEEE Jrnl. Sel. Areas Communications 23 298/1 The router first selects a key by performing a hash..over the packet header fields.

2015 P. Franco Understanding Bitcoin vii. 99 A hash is usually significantly smaller than the information that generated it.

1964 W. A. Martin Hash-coding Functions of Complex Variable (MIT Artific. Intelligence Project, Memo No. 70) 1 Equivalence under the algebraic and trigonometric relations can be determined with high probability by hash-coding the expressions using finite field arithmetic and then comparing the resulting hash-code numbers.

1983 80 Microcomputing Mar. 16/2 The one-byte hash code for the hash index table sector must still be computed, but the need to find the file's granules is eliminated.

2000 IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 11 578/1 While scanning the text, the hash address for each word is formed.

2015 J. Zablocki Couchbase Essent. i. 10 Records are stored and retrieved via a key much like programmers use hash tables or dictionary structures to store data in memory.

1895 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 28 Dec. I'd trade it for a porterhouse steak and some hash brown potatoes.

1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 388 Of late there has been a strong tendency..to omit the -ed ending... Examples: mash potatoes, hash-brown potatoes, [etc.].

1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 336 Hash-brown potatoes and salads are specialties.

2003 C. Sarros Wheat-free, Gluten-free Cookbk. vi. 130 1 16-ounce package gluten-free frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed.

1896 Godey's Mag. Apr. 406/2 Supper, one dish hash browned potatoes, one piece bread.

1954 Tech. Bull. 1101 8 Hash-browned potatoes were scored for color of outside crust, interior texture, and flavor.

1973 M. Davis Potato Bk. 20/1 Fry..uncovered. Turn with a spatula to brown both sides. These are known variously as ‘cottage fries’, ‘home fries’ or ‘hash browned’ potatoes.

2010 Asian Reporter (Portland, Oregon) 16 Mar. 7 I went back to my Grand Slam breakfast. Two over-easies, two wheat toasts, hash-browned potatoes, pico de gallo on the side.

1926 Amer. Cookery Aug. 125/1 Suppose a tired teamster goes to his dairy lunch and after his beef sandwich and ‘hash browns’ and coffee orders.

1942 Amer. Weekly 6 Dec. 30/2 As this mixture is frying, I chop the potatoes with my spatula as for hash browns.

1983 Los Angeles Times (San Diego Co.) ii. 1/1 You can see a woman Marine come in for two egg McMuffins, a hash brown, a Danish and a couple of milks.

2007 ‘Liz and Julie’ You F'Coffee, Sir? 184 The little breakfast still contained two blobs of scrambled eggs, a tomato, a hash brown and loads of mushrooms.

2014 New Yorker 20 Oct. 78/2 Your mother was on the living-room couch..watching a game show and eating microwaved hash browns.

1776 St James's Chron. 12 Sept. (advt.) A Hash Dish and Lamp.

1856 Bentley's Misc. 39 190 It was Irish stew we had that day, and the girl got the great hash-dish and put it on the table.

1920 Illustr. London News 18 Dec. 1041 (advt.) Oblong Shape Hash Dish, 9¾ ins. long, with loose inner dish.

2002 D. J. Shotwell Glass A to Z 234 Hash dish, a usually round or oval covered serving dish with a false bottom or pan beneath to hold water that is heated by a candle or spirit lamp to keep the contents of the dish warm and moist.

1865 Owyhee Avalanche (Ruby City, Idaho Territory) 30 Sept. He was in quest of employment, and would take a situation as dishwasher in a hash house, if nothing better offered.

1869 G. A. Townsend New World compared with Old viii. 235 The American boarding-house is a ‘hash house’ of character, particularly in Washington.

1946 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fiends (1947) xxiv. 171 You'll have to take that job in a hashhouse after all.

1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. vii. 221 I see the hotels and the hashhouses.

2013 @Nanabozah 9 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My family keeps pushing me to open a breakfast joint, since SoCal is devoid of anything but greasy spoon hash houses.

1889 Judge (N.Y.) 19 Oct. 23/2 Boarding-house mistress—‘Mr. Calkins, what did you mean when you called my establishment a “hash-house”?’ Mr. Calkins—‘Mrs. Squeezer, would you have had me refer to it as a “hash-joint”?’

1908 Pacific Monthly Mar. 325/1 Then he was an oyster-shucker at a Dago hash-joint.

1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem vii. 64 Harlem showed another face..the beauty parlors (hairdressers); the hash joints (home cooking); the undertakers and the churches.

2003 in T. D. Black Bridges of Memory 286 I'd get up in the morning and go over to Thirty-fifth and State, where there was a little hash joint, and get something to eat.

1706 S. Centlivre Love at Venture v. 52 Your Father..swears..he'll slice me into Hash-meat.

1864 App. Senate & Assembly Jrnls. Calif. 2 72 The hash-meat was chopped first, and when fine, the potatoes were put in.

1994 Aiken (S. Carolina) Standard 30 June 3 b/4 (advt.) Boneless Chuck for Hash Meat $1.79 per lb.

1994 X. Lai & L. R. Knudsen in R. Anderson Fast Software Encryption: Cambr. Security Workshop, 1993 158 We define the hash rate of such an iterated hash function (or equivalently, of an round function).

2014 Business Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 1 Mar. The current processing power of verifying Bitcoin transactions (the hash rate) determines how fast a miner can ‘solve’ a Bitcoin block.

2021 @canaanio 25 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Dec. 2021) Bitcoin's #hashrate has been gradually rising over the past 90 days, and is closely approaching its all-time high (ATH) previously set in May.

1868 Gold Hill (Nevada) Daily News 6 May The nice young man of Washoe may or may not be some kind of a clerk, a hash-slinger, or a check-guerrilla.

1946 Amer. Speech 21 86 The cooks and ‘hashslingers’ of former years went off to war or to the shipyards.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Oct. iv. 2/1 A cafeteria hash slinger.

1948 A. Schwartz Blowtop xvi. 147 ‘It's one-puff tea. Way out!’ ‘Green stuff?’ ‘No, this is brown. It's African. It might even be hash. You can blow your top on one puff.’

1954 W. S. Burroughs Let. 9 Feb. (1993) 196 Several days later in the rain (and loaded on hash. You eat it here with hot tea), I meet an Arab in native dress, and we repair to a Turkish bath.

1967 Listener 31 Aug. 262/2 If people use dangerous machinery..while they are high on hash, the consequences may be..brash.

1972 P. Dickinson Lizard in Cup x. 157 ‘It's morphine she's been on?’ said Pibble. But Tony shook her head. ‘Just grass. Hash.’

1984 Observer 7 Oct. 23/3 One boat-load of Lebanese hash..hidden on an uninhabited Greek island, vanished as the result of depredations by goats.

2004 R. Smith Few Kind Words & Loaded Gun xvii. 283 Before I could put him right, he had bitten a chunk off his own parcel of hash and slipped it into my hand.

1966 ‘Panama Rose’ Hashish Cookbk. 15 Hash brownies... Pulverize 5 grams of top quality hash. Melt over hot water: 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate [etc.].

1979 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 7 Dec. 18/5 Rae unwittingly got high on Kim's hash brownies and was hospitalized after walking into traffic.

2013 Toronto Star (Nexis) 13 Dec. a17 Overall cannabis sales are expected to rise as new, weed-laced products, such as hash brownies, come on the market.

1957 A. Ginsberg Let. 10 June (2008) 158 I can see..Burroughs leaning back laughing with a lushed up hashhead mad intelligent gleam in his Shakespearean eye.

1971 New York 13 Sept. 40/2 The spectacle of squalor and stupefaction that greets you when you enter one of these picturesque pads is enough to wipe out forever the pipe dreams of a comfortably ensconced American hash-head.

2007 Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) (Nexis) 9 Sept. (Features section) 10 Your comedy hero isn't a hash head or a connoisseur of the crack pipe.

1973 Guardian 31 Dec. 4/6 There was a big increase in smuggling of a new type of cannabis first found in 1972. It is known as ‘hash oil’, or liquid cannabis.

1991 Conjunctions 17 374 Electric stills that could convert a hemp doormat into a jigger of hash oil that would blow you noggin to the moon.

2014 D. Michaels Green 33/3 ‘Hash oil’..is made using a complex extraction process that involves..heat, vacuums, and solvents like alcohol, butane, or carbon dioxide.

1967 Chicago Tribune 19 Mar. ia. 3/5 [A bicycle] that was..one big hash pipe. You put hashish in the tail light and smoke it out of [the] handlebars.

1970 Rolling Stone 11 June 44/4 Break out the hash pipe and heat up the gumbo—Dr. John is back again with music from that steamy, swampy place in your mind.

2006 Independent on Sunday 1 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 23/1 I met him at Gatwick, at 6am... He lit his hash pipe in the arrivals hall.

1967 Ann. Rep. (S. Afr. Council Sci. & Industrial Res.) p. i A slash sign ‘/’ is printed in the line to indicate from which point one should start reading the title, while a hash sign ‘#’ indicates the end of a title.

1977 J. Dills CMU Computer Sci. Syst. Introd. Users Man. (Carnegie Mellon Univ. (Dept. Computer Sci.): Research paper 77-29) i. 20 A number sign or hash (#) is used as a flag to indicate the presence of an octal constant in a file name or extension.

1986 Guardian 20 Feb. 15 Would I please therefore oblige her by using the musical notation provided (I gather that it is called a hash sign).

1987 Radio & Electronics World Feb. 47/1 As well as the numbers 1 to 9 and 0, you also have buttons marked with a star and square (also known as hash or octothorp).

1990 Econ. Jrnl. 100 1030 Cells with numbers are shown by a hash symbol (#).

2002 What Mobile Apr. (Basics section) 4/4 If you're calling from a landline, dial your own number, press hash and then enter PIN.

1981 Accountant 3 Sept. 289/3 A hand held keypad with some 20 keys, including the numerals 0 to 9, asterisk and hash key, and four memory keys.

2005 S. Barker Sayonara Bar (2007) 252 I enter the three-digit code and press the hash key.

1591–2 Rob Stene's Dream (1989) 71 Sum haschit the harnis of tendir lamis.

1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie i. 8 All raging there in bloud, they hew'd and hasht.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 226 He..rain'd a storm Of blows so terrible and thick, As if he meant to hash her quick.

1724 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden 46 They are hagging and hashing them down, and their Blood is running like Water.

1790 R. Burns Sherra-moor in Scots Musical Mus. III. 291 They hack'd & hash'd, while braid swords clash'd.

1794 Parl. Reg. 4 126 They were not, as of old, to be blown up by a gunpowder-plot, but to be hacked, hashed to pieces, and hewed with pikes, and God knew what.

1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Feb. (1946) 18 Hashd and smashd as my time is, who can make anything of it?

1899 J. Lumsden Edinb. Poems & Songs 105 Wha hack'd an' hash'd an' stole, Like reivers an' thievers.

1904 ‘H. Foulis’ Erchie xiv. 90 Ye get your hand awfu' sair hashed pu'in' the cork oot o' a bottle o' beer.

1977 E. Whitley Two Kingdoms iii. v. 174 He left a cool and steady account of all his interrogations: and in that apparent stoicism mounted the scaffold, where first one hand was hacked and hashed off; then the other.

1615 J. Murrell New Bk. Cookerie 75 To hash a shoulder of Mutton, or a Legge of Lambe. Take your meat off the Spit, and hash it into a Pewter Dish.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 34 I gave them some tastes of my Cookery, in hashing, and fricaseing this flesh.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Mushroom You must hash a Piece of Veal or Fowl.

1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 28 Hash, to mince Meat.

a1785 J. Hall-Stevenson Makarony Fables in Wks. (1795) I. 210 He [sc. a cook] slash'd and carbonnaded, Stewed and hash'd, and gasconnaded.

1843 T. Hood Drop of Gin in Punch 18 Nov. 223/2 No cold mutton to hash,..not even potatoes to mash.

1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 136 Meat hashed small and well peppered.

1910 ‘Westerner’ Handling Hog from Start to Finish 13 The intestines which are left are known as the ‘black guts’ and are cut by machine, or hashed, and washed thoroughly.

1952 Observer 14 Sept. 9/3 Hash the beef, combine it with minced onion and chopped boiled potatoes, spread in a skillet.

2007 Saga Mag. Sept. 89/1 Up and down the country, Monday was the day for hashing the remains of Sunday's roast.

1654 J. Humfrey Rejoynder to Mr. Drake 121 While the cold meat of this his even tainted passage, comes so often to the board, it may stand him in some stead to help to hash, or stew, and serve it in with it.

1670 J. Ogilby Africa 126 The Jews at Cairo for the most part speak a mixt Language, a meer Gally-maufry hasht together of all usual tongues.

1671 J. Eachard Observ. Answer Enq. Contempt of Clergy 60 Common sense and truth will not down with them, unless it be hash'd, and fricasse'd.

1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iv. 231 Be sure I give them Fragments, not a Meal; What Gellius or Stobæus hash'd before, Or chew'd by blind old Scholiasts o'er and o'er.

1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV (ed. 5) 329 His own stale scraps..Hash'd up and season'd with an old man's spleen.

1820 ‘B. Cornwall’ Gyges in Sicilian Story 123 Some hash the orts of others, and re-hash.

1880 Academy 25 Sept. 219 Pleased at seeing his waifs and strays of thought thus hashed up.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iv. 134 The things..they had hashed and rehashed for many a frugal conversational meal.

1982 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 14 Oct. Then you buy a patterned or textured suit in co-ordinating colors so that all those pieces can be hashed together.

2005 Information Today May 17/1 Google's recent effort in hashing up news content may have the makings of a killer application.