The process by which something is mashed or beaten to pulp.
1847,Food for the Million. Maize against potato:
In the culinary process, there are none of those peelings and washings as in the case of potatoes and turnips,[…] none of those squeezings andmashings and choppings, before the worthless mess can be got upon the table.
1835, Robert Dundas Thomson, Thomas Thomson,Records of General Science, volume 2, page459:
More hot water is added, and the mashing process repeated, until the grain has been wholly deprived of its saccharine matter, which is generally accomplished by three, or at the most, fourmashings[…]
