单词 | lasher |
释义 | lashern. One who or that which lashes. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips whipper1552 jerker1565 scourger1580 lasher1611 firkera1626 whipster1670 yarker1677 bone-polisher1803 horsewhipper1808 flagellator1824 thong-man1876 sjambokker1953 society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material metaphrast1610 lasher1611 pastoralist1619 amorist1642 travel writer1711 party writer1715 Poor Richard1757 murdermonger1785 manners-painter1807 institutionalist1817 paroemiographer1823 nautical1831 nonsense-writera1835 recaster1841 serialist1845 snobographer1848 librettist1862 palindromist1872 fragmentist1874 text-man1900 scriptwriter1911 paradoxographer1917 absurdist1929 blogger1999 weblogger1999 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Foüetteur, a whipper, scourger..lasher. 1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) To Rdr., in Wks. I. 352 Or I could doe worse, Arm'd with Archilochvs fury, write Iambicks, Should make the desperate lashers hang themselues. 2. In the names of fishes, e.g. lasher bull-head. Also father-lasher n. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lasher bull-head, a name for the fish Cottus scorpius. 3. Nautical. (See quot. 1848.) = lashing n.2 ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > lashings, seizings, or securing ropes > a rope used for stopper1636 lanyard1669 lasher1669 racking1704 selvage1711 selvagee1750 gilguy1833 tier1844 stop1846 selvage-stropc1860 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 20 Make ready to board him; Have your Lashers clear, and able men with them. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 143 Lashers for the Yards as big as the Lanyards of the Shrowds. 1848 G. Biddlecombe Art of Rigging 20 Lashers.—The ropes employed to lash or secure particular objects; as jeers, etc. 4. a. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > sudden rush of water > [noun] > let down through weir, etc. floodgatea1425 flash1677 lasher1677 skail-water1825 splash1879 the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice hatchOE clowa1250 lock1261 water lock1261 sluice1340 water gate1390 sewer-gate1402 spay1415 floodgatec1440 shuttlec1440 spayer1450 gate1496 falling gate1524 spoye1528 gote1531 penstock1542 ventil1570 drawgate1587 flood-hatch1587 turnpike1623 slaker1664 lock gate1677 hatchway1705 flash1768 turnpike-lock1771 sluice-gate1781 pound-lock1783 stop-gate1790 buck gate1791 slacker1797 aboiteau1802 koker1814 guard-lock1815 falling sluice1819 lasher1840 fender1847 tailgate1875 weir-hatch1875 wicket1875 the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > weir weirc897 stagne1636 lasher1858 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 185 Our Mills and Locks have most of them back streams and lashers to carry off the water when it is too plentiful. 1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iii. 96 Not louder falls The foamy lasher's cataract superb In fullest flood-time. 1840 Ann. Reg. 1839 15 The lasher is an opening to let off the water when too high. 1858 T. Hughes Scouring of White Horse 16 The great lasher at Pangbourn, where the water was rushing and dancing through in the sunlight. 1884 Blackwood's Mag. 342 The huge rafts of silver-fir..shoot the lashers in safety. b. The pool into which the water of the lasher falls. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > lasher lock pool1674 tumbling-bay1724 lasher1851 1851 G. Butler Let. in Recoll. (1892) 70 I bathed in a lasher about four miles from Oxford. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 206 Men who through those wide fields of breezy grass..To bathe in the abandon'd lasher pass. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xii. 232 He sculled down to Sandford, bathed in the lasher, and returned in time for chapel. 1872 Daily News 3 May 5/3 If the..Board can prevent bathing in these dangerous lashers it ought to do so without delay. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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