different between basher vs lasher

English

Etymology

bash +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæ??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæ??/
• Rhymes: -æ??(?)

Noun

basher (plural bashers)

1. One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
2. (slang) One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.

   He was beaten up by a queer-basher.

   a Paki-basher

3. (Britain, slang) A trainspotter.
   • 2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero

     Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.

   • 2017, Ian Carter, British railway enthusiasm (page 102)

     Determined 'bashers' do still ride trains, of course, seeking to cram the largest number of route-miles into 24 hours.

4. (military, slang) A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.
   • 2014, LA Clarke, Callsign Whiskey (page 24)

     Suddenly awake she looked around, startled, it was light, hot, intensely hot and she was sleeping in a shell scrape under a basher.

   • 2018, John-Paul Jordan, Joys of War

     I was well used to sleeping out under the stars whatever the weather. I had a hammock and a basher, a rain sheet to go over where I was sleeping.

5. (television, film) A kind of small floodlight.

Derived terms

• Bible basher

Anagrams

• Absher, Baehrs, Behars, rehabs

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læ??(r)/
• Rhymes: -æ??(r)

Etymology 1

lash +? -er

Noun

lasher (plural lashers)

1. One who whips or lashes.
2. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another.

Synonyms

• (rope for binding): lashing

Etymology 2

lash +? -er; see lash (“slack”).

Noun

lasher (plural lashers)

1. (Britain) A weir in a river.
   • 1869, Charles Kingsley, Madam How and Lady Why

     There is Basildon - and Hurley - and Pangbourne, with its roaring lasher

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Hasler, ashler, halers, halser, harles, hersal