At impact, the nosepiece of Phelps’s goggles snapped.

See here what it says in the dictionary. So, you were in the wrong about the meaning of that word.

'I been pissin' blood,' he said, grinning. Then frowning. 'Crash us a tenner, eh?'

I'm sure I never shall forget the turn young SIMMONS gave me when he came in with that paper as he'd been and copied out of a winder thro' being in a west-end house, tho' livin' at home with his mother, as steady a woman as ever trod shoe-leather, …