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lasher|ˈlæʃə(r)|
[f. lash v.1, v.2 + -er1.]
One who or that which lashes.
†1. One who beats or whips. Also fig.
1602B. Jonson Poetaster Apol. Dial., Wks. (1616) 352 Or I could doe worse, Arm'd with Archilochvs fury, write Iambicks, Should make the desperate lashers hang them⁓selues. 1611Cotgr., Foüetteur, a whipper, scourger..lasher.
2. In the names of fishes, e.g. lasher bull-head. Also father-lasher.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lasher bull-head, a name for the fish Cottus scorpius.
3. Naut. (See quot. 1848.) = lashing vbl. n.2
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. 20 Make ready to board him; Have your Lashers clear, and able men with them. 1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 143 Lashers for the Yards as big as the Lanyards of the Shrowds. 1848G. Biddlecombe Art of Rigging 20, Lashers.—The ropes employed to lash or secure particular objects; as jeers, etc.
4. Chiefly local (on the Thames). The body of water that lashes or rushes over an opening in a barrier or weir; hence the opening itself, and by extension, a weir.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 185 Our Mills and Locks have most of them back streams and lashers to carry off the water when it is too plentiful. 1800J. Hurdis Fav. Village 96 Not louder falls The foamy lasher's cataract superb In fullest flood-time. 1840Ann. Reg. 15 The lasher is an opening to let off the water when too high. 1858Hughes Scouring White Horse 16 The great lasher at Pangbourn, where the water was rushing and dancing through in the sunlight. 1884Blackw. Mag. 342 The huge rafts of silver-fir..shoot the lashers in safety.
b. The pool into which the water of the lasher falls.
1851G. Butler Let. in Recoll. (1892) 70, I bathed in a lasher about four miles from Oxford. 1853M. Arnold Scholar-Gipsy x, Men who through these wide fields of breezy grass..To bathe in the abandon'd lasher pass. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xii. 232 He sculled down to Sandford, bathed in the lasher, and returned in time for chapel. 1872Daily News 3 May 5/3 If the..Board can prevent bathing in these dangerous lashers it ought to do so without delay. |