shred

Take a little grated Bread, ſome Beef-ſuet, yolks of hard Eggs, three Anchovies, a bit of an Onion, Salt and Pepper, Tyme and Winter-ſavory, twelve Oyſters, ſome Nutmeg grated; mix all theſe together, and ſhred them very fine, and work them up with raw Eggs like a paſte, and ſtuff your Mutton under the Skin in the thickeſt place, or where you pleaſe, and roaſt it; […]

Hunger was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.

Then ſince (quoth ſhe) the terme of each mans life / For nought may leſſened nor enlarged bee, / Graunt this, that vvhen ye ſhred vvith fatall knife / His line, vvhich is the eldeſt of the three, / VVhich of them the ſhorteſt, as I ſee, / Eftſoones his life may paſſe into the next; […]

We couldn't see over the wall of smoke, and we couldn't see through it. But at last it began to shred away lazily, and by the end of another quarter-hour the land was clear and our curiosity was enabled to satisfy itself. No living creature was in sight!