Obs.–1 [f. as prec. + -ER1.] (See quot.)
1816. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 133. The smugglers, or, as they are styled from the manner of conveying the whisky, Flaskers, go in large bands on the high roads in open day, and laugh at the traveller who, in his looks, expresses wonder at contraventions of the law so undisguised, and yet so undetected…. They entered a house and deposited their laden flasks, until the shades of night would enable them to penetrate in safety to their resetters in Glasgow.
