Definition of Gnasher

1. Noun. One who gnashes teeth. ¹

2. Noun. A tooth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gnasher

1. one that gnashes [n -S] - See also: gnashes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnasher

gnarl
gnarled
gnarley
gnarlier
gnarliest
gnarling
gnarls
gnarly
gnarr
gnarred
gnarring
gnarrs
gnars
gnash
gnashed
gnasher (current term)
gnashers
gnashes
gnashing
gnashingly
gnasht
gnashy
gnasp
gnast
gnasting
gnat
gnatcatcher
gnatcatchers
gnateater
gnateaters

Literary usage of Gnasher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"AFTERWARD, in the spring, Thorkel Tooth-gnasher went to se« Wager-o'-Battle Berse and claim the ... I have slain Tooth-gnasher of the fourth leen [the ..."

2. The Viking Age: The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1889)
"... (tooth-gnasher), and a chariot (reid), on which he drives and the he-goats draw it. Therefore he is called Oku- Thor ( = the driving Thor). ..."

3. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"Oh—you are a gnasher of teeth in criticism, I see !—you are a lion and a tiger in one, and in a most carnivorous mood, over and above. ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1861)
"The gentlest remonstrance about his melancholy, elicits the fierce phrenological gnasher, " Sir! at the age of twelve, ..."

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