Definition of "crusher"
crusher
/ˈkɹʌʃə/
noun
plural crushers
Someone or something that crushes.
Quotations
Woe unto every backbiter, slanderer, who has gathered riches and counted them over thinking his riches have made him immortal! ¶ No indeed, he shall be thrust into the Crusher, and what shall teach thee what is the Crusher?
1955 , “The Backbiter”, in Arthur J. Arberry, transl., The Koran Interpreted, page 664
Quotations
Anything about the police sets them a talking at once. […] 'The blessed crushers are everywhere,' shouted one. 'I wish I'd been there to have had a shy at the eslops,' said another. And then a man sung out: 'O, don't I like the Bobbys?'
1851, Henry Mayhew, “The Literature of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 25