smasher (smasher)

[ Another time I found 168. 6d., and thought that was a haul; but every bit of it, every coin, shillings and sixpences and joeys, was bad-all smashers. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 488. 6. A small gooseberry pie. Hall i well. [Local, Eng.] smashing (smash'ing), p. a. 1. Crushing; also, slashing; dashing. Never was such a smashing article as he wrote. Thackeray , Philip, xvi. 2. Wild; gay. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] smashing-machine (smash'ing-ma-shēn"), n. A heavy and quick pre used by bookbinders to flatten and make solid the springy folds of books before they are sewed.