Lasher

1. n. A weir in a river.
2. n. One who whips or lashes.
3. n. A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; — called also lashing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.