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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The slack water collected above a weir in a river; hence, a weir.
  • noun One who lashes.
  • noun A lashing; a thong or cord used as a lushing.
  • noun A fish, the Cottus bubalis. See father-lasher.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who whips or lashes.
  • noun A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing.
  • noun engraving A weir in a river.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who whips or lashes.
  • noun A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another.
  • noun UK A weir in a river.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip

Etymologies

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lash +‎ -er

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