[f. CLASH v. + -ER.]

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  1.  One who or that which clashes or collides.

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1606.  J. Raynolds, Dolarney’s Prim. (1880), 118. There might be heard, the hideous lumbring swasher, Vnequally consorting with the clasher.

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1834.  Planché, Brit. Costume, 4. The flat circular shields … from their sonorous quality … were called tarians or clashers.

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a. 1845.  Hood, Lament Toby, xvii. For sorrow I could stick myself, But conscience is a clasher.

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  † 2.  Some kind of musical instrument. Obs.

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1621.  J. Lane, Triton’s Trump., in Sqr’s Tale (1887), Introd. 6. Bandoraes, orpharions, statelie grave, otherboes, classhers, sweetest of the thrave, and everie instrument of melodie.

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  3.  Sc. A tale-bearer, a mischievous gossip.

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1788.  Picken, Poems (1813), II. 76 (Jam.). A’ tales are never held for fack, That clashers tell.

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