rasher

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rash=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

rasher, n. [In sense 1, probably fr. rash, a., as being hastily cooked.].

•  A thin slice of bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rasher, n. a thin slice of bacon or ham.

Etymology

16th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

rasher

bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, coat, coating, collop, covering, crumb, cut, cutting, deal, disk, dollop, end, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, fragment, gob, gobbet, hunk, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, lump, membrane, modicum, moiety, morsel, pane, panel, paring, particle, patina, peel, pellicle, piece, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, safety glass, scoop, scrap, scum, shard, shaving, sheet, shiver, shred, skin, slab, slat, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, table, tablet, tatter, veneer, wafer

ROGET THESAURUS

rasher

Layer

N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.