lasher

[Eng. lash; -er.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. One who lashes or flogs. 2. A weir in a river; the water collected below a weir. IMG:content-0380.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of flogging or whipping. 2. Naut .: A rope or gasket, by which anything is secured on board ship, by wrapping around it; as the lashing of a studding-sail boom; the lashing of the parts of a pontoon bridge; the 'lashing at the head of shears; the lashing of a tail-block. Also the act of binding one thing to another. 3. ( Pl .): Abundance of anything. ( Vulgar . ) lash-le , a . [Eng. lash (2), s.; le .] Having no lashes.