Then he felt a thrill of excitement run through him as he heard the woman shriek out, shaking her fist threateningly,- "Lache!
"King of the Castle"
George Manville Fenn
The word "lasher" is obsolete almost everywhere else in England, and even to the Oxford mind it describes the lashing overflow rather than the Lache or slack water above.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin