Crossword-Solution: BASHIN 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

For my part, I showed ’em into the parlour, not ’cos they was worthy of it, but ’cos I knew right well they would start bashin’ some of my customers, and maybe get my license into trouble if I left ’em in the bar.

Lassies in their short woollen petticoats, and bedgones of blue and lilac, with boisterous lads, were stirring the contents of the vast bashin--many cabots of apples, together with sugar, lemon-peel, and cider; the old ladies in mob-caps tied under the chin, measuring out the nutmeg and cinnamon to complete the making of the black butter: a jocund recreation for all, and at all times.

Between the two there existed a queer comradeship, which had been growing for more than two years, so that the bald, rotund, red-faced goldsmith had come to regard the shock-headed, rat-faced apprentice more as a son than as an assistant; whilst Jake would say to the youth of his "push," "Huh! none o' yer bashin' an' knockin' about fer me--the boss an' me's chums.

Ahter Ou' Wolf was new married, his missus she kep' on a-yawin' about how he'd let Ou' Jackalse t'atch his tail fast, an' steal his dinner, an' biff him wid bones, an' let him in for a bashin' f'm de man wid de biltong waggon, till Ou' Wolf he 'gin to be mighty glad he hadn't tol' her about all de rest o' de times Ou' Jackalse done him down.