Lashers

They have tiny, whip-like threads, called lashers, which beat at the water, filtering out tiny plants and animals to use as food.

He ordered the Hellespont to be lashed three-hundred times, making the lashers recite words condemning what had been done to the bridge by the Hellespont. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Before the back-lashers skip the rest of this column and just start posting irate comments below, let me air my record on gay rights: I'm a member of HRC. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We could easily trace the lines of half a dozen aqueducts, mostly channelled with rough cement, overlying a fine concrete; some of them had grooved stones to divert the stream by means of lashers. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The union claimed a potential membership of 2,000 Coloured mine workers employed on the Reef as timbermen, waste packers, pipe fitters, track layers, lashers and trammers, winch drivers, pump attendants, and transport drivers - occupations which were also catered for by the white miners, union. ❋ Ray Esther (1969)

As I approached the ring of devil-lashers two of the whips curled out to crack the air on either side, but I did not flinch, knowing that much of nomad custom. ❋ Norton, Andre (1969)

I do hope that Dad will have got such good health from Marion and such lashers of fish. ❋ Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 (1917)

Nemestronia's six big, husky, bull-necked slave-lashers, the two head - lashers with their many-lashed scourges. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)

I glanced at him as the lashers stripped and bound him. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)

All the roarers and lashers served to help him to magnify the dangers and horrors of the engagement that he might try to prove to himself that the thing with which men could charge him was in truth a symmetrical act. ❋ Unknown (1895)

It is a mistake, though a common one, to fancy that the giant trout of the Thames lashers lie in swift water. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

The boa, alligator, shark, pike, and I suppose the trout also, will live to a great age, and attain an enormous size, give them but range enough; and the only cause why there are trout of ten pounds and more in the Thames lashers, while one of four pounds is rare here, is simply that the Thames fish has more to eat. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

The lashers then force that food and oxygen into the cells.