Green’s Dictionary of Slang

smiter n.

the arm.

1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn).
1688		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 213: An Arm Smiter.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Smiter An Arm.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit (5 edn).
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 15: An Arm – Smiter.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1789		G. Parker Life’s Painter 141: I have done one cull twice for his cligh and bit; if you’ll hold his smiters up, and I should see him again to-morrow, I’ll do him out and out.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795).
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		Flash Dict.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1846		Swell’s Night Guide 132/1: Smitter, the arm.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.