Word Meanings - FLUSHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The red-backed shrike. See Flasher. (more info) 1. A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

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• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• BACKWORM
  A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.
• WATERWORT
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• WATER SHREW
  Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• BACKSTRESS
  A female baker.
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• WATER RAT
  The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• WATER CRAKE
  The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
• WATER DOG
  A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
• WATER SAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• WATER CLOCK
  An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.
• BACKING
  The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover. (more info) 1. The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward. 2. That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• BACKHANDER
  A backhanded blow.
• WATERIE
  The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
• WATER BALLAST
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• WATER RAM
  An hydraulic ram.
• WATER LINE
  Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• WARTY-BACK
  An American fresh-water mussel . Its shell is used in making buttons.
• CAMELBACKED; CAMEL-BACKED
  Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. Fuller.
• SLOWBACK
  A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. Dr. Favour.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• FINBACK
  Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balænoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balænopteridæ, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.