[f. as prec. + -ER1.] A blow with the fist.
1825. Coleridge, Lit. Rem., IV. 281. He must force the reader to believe: or rather he has an antagonist, a wilful infidel or heretic always and exclusively before his imagination; or if he thinks of the reader at all, it is as of a partisan enjoying every hard thump, and smashing fister he gives the adversary, whom Skelton hates too cordially to endure to obtain any thing from him with his own liking.
