1) American horror novel 2) Anne Rice book of 1993 3) Cattle driver with a whip 4) Driver 5) One who binds 6) Rope binder 7) Whipper 8) Witchcraft in written fiction 
Lasher (1993) by Anne Rice is the second novel in her series Lives of the Mayfair Witches. ==Plot summary== The novel begins shortly after the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Rowan Mayfair, recently married to contractor Michael Curry. Michael, feeling betrayed by Rowan, has sunk into a depression helped along by the useless drugs prescribed to hi...
weir
• (n.) A piece of rope for binding or making fast one thing to another; -- called also lashing. • (n.) A weir in a river. • (n.) One who whips or lashes.
Lash'er noun One who whips or lashes. 
[n] - a driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip
noun a driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip