smasher

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

A person who lives by passing base coin. The cove was fined in the steel for smashing; the fellow was ordered to be imprisoned in the house of correction for uttering base coin.

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Smasher
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
smasher
A low word denoting anything very large, or larger than another of the same kind. It is used in the...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
smasher
any thing larger than common. Northumberland. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose