trashern.
1. A person who trashes sugar cane: see trash v.3
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > sugar-cane > specific process > one who
trasher1903
1903 Daily Chron. 17 Sept. 6/7 The fierce rays of the torrid sun pouring down on the perspiring trashers of the cane.
2. A vandal or wrecker. Cf. trash v.3 3a. colloquial.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm > vandal or iconoclast
defacer1534
image-breaker1565
iconoclasta1629
Goth1663
Vandal1663
Huna1744
book-burner1821
idoloclast1843
train-wrecker1873
biblioclast1880
trasher1970
1970 Guardian 19 Sept. 9/5 The trasher mixes with the non-violent student.
1975 Time (Canada ed.) 9 June 8/2 ‘As a lifelong Tory and ranking member of the legal establishment,’ reports Time Canada's Toronto Bureau Chief Robert Lewis, ‘Maloney also is not about to pursue his office like a trasher.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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