flashers

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For example, ships have been delayed at berth at the No. 1 U.S. container gateway at Los Angeles/Long Beach, due to a lack of "lashers" who secure and unlock containers onboard vessels.

From Reuters • Jun. 12, 2023

I do hope that Dad will have got such good health from Marion and such lashers of fish.

From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Davis, Charles Belmont

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.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It is a mistake, though a common one, to fancy that the giant trout of the Thames lashers lie in swift water. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles

The lashers then fell upon their work of securing the balks as though they loved labor.

From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)