[f. Flushing (name of a Dutch port) + -ER1.] A Flushing vessel or sailor.
1689. Lond. Gaz., No. 2553/2. The English Vessel … was the next day retaken by a Flushinger.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1967, 43/1. One that went ashore was boarded by the Flushingers, who flung overboard 650 out of the eight hundred panic-stricken Spanish sailors.
