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- noun Plural form of
lasher .
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Examples
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They have tiny, whip-like threads, called lashers, which beat at the water, filtering out tiny plants and animals to use as food.
unknown title 2009
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He ordered the Hellespont to be lashed three-hundred times, making the lashers recite words condemning what had been done to the bridge by the Hellespont.
Stopping a Flu Pandemic: Is King Xerxes Thrashing the Waves? 2009
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Before the back-lashers skip the rest of this column and just start posting irate comments below, let me air my record on gay rights: I'm a member of HRC.
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We could easily trace the lines of half a dozen aqueducts, mostly channelled with rough cement, overlying a fine concrete; some of them had grooved stones to divert the stream by means of lashers.
The Land of Midian 2003
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The union claimed a potential membership of 2,000 Coloured mine workers employed on the Reef as timbermen, waste packers, pipe fitters, track layers, lashers and trammers, winch drivers, pump attendants, and transport drivers - occupations which were also catered for by the white miners, union.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 16 Ray Esther 1969
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As I approached the ring of devil-lashers two of the whips curled out to crack the air on either side, but I did not flinch, knowing that much of nomad custom.
Uncharted Stars Norton, Andre 1969
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I do hope that Dad will have got such good health from Marion and such lashers of fish.
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1917
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I do hope that Dad will have got such good health from Marion and such lashers of fish.
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Nemestronia's six big, husky, bull-necked slave-lashers, the two head - lashers with their many-lashed scourges.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900
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I glanced at him as the lashers stripped and bound him.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900
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