Probably no other invention was ever taken up and supplanted other systems with such rapidity as that of the slasher, in every cotton manufacturing country.
"Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery"
Howard & Bullough American Machine Company, Ltd.
Mr. Briggs wrote for a couple of bruisers, meaning to prepare oats for his horses: his friend sent him the Whitechapel Chicken and the Bayswater slasher, with the gloves, all ready.
"A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)"
Augustus de Morgan
But who might this tall slasher be?"
"Robin Hood"
J. Walker McSpadden