† breechern.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
One who flogs.
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beater1483
lambacker1593
breecher1611
trouncerc1630
flaybreech1671
flogger1708
drubbera1721
thrasher?1853
swisher1884
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fesseur, a whipper, scourger, breecher.
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n.1611- to shake down into
- to shake feet
- to shake hand
- to shake hands
- to shake hands with
- to shake hands with an old friend
- to shake hands with the wife's best friend
- to shake have a cloth in the wind
- to shake heels
- to shake in one's shoes
- to shake it
- to shake like a leaf
- to shake off
- to shake off the yoke
- to shake on to
- to shake one's bones
- to shake one's day-day
- to shake one's dayday
- to shake one's ears
- to shake one's elbow
- to shake one's head
- to shake one's money-maker
- to shake one's moneymaker
- to shake one's sides
- to shake oneself awake