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
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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