thwacker rare.
(ˈθwækə(r))
[f. prec. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which thwacks; a beater; spec. an implement for beating half-dried pantiles into shape on the thwacking-frame.
| 1867 Ure Dict. Arts, etc. III. 902 When half-dry the tiles are taken out one by one, placed on the thwacking frame, and beaten with the thwacker to produce the required shape. 1877 Knight Dict. Mech., Thwacking-frame, the tool by which the upper side [of half-dried pantiles] is beaten has the shape of the segment of a cylinder, and is called the thwacker. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist Prelude, Like cudgels of carpet-thwackers expelling dust. |
† 2. A thumper, a whacker; in quot., a ‘thumping’ lie. Obs. rare—1.
| 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 108 It would follow, that our leasting were greater than somewhat else, or greater than it self; Which would be a thwacker. |