[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who is employed to flush sewers.
1882. Pall Mall G., 12 June, 1/2. Superintendent of flushers.
Hence Flusherman, a sewer-flusher.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 28. The policeman on duty there wears huge flishermen’s flushermen’s boots, reaching to their thighs. Ibid., II. 151. I received a similar account to this from one of the London flushermen.
