different between squasher vs quasher

English

squash +? -er

squasher (plural squashers)

One who, or that which, squashes.
- 1996, T William Boxx, Gary M Quinlivan, Culture in crisis and the renewal of civil life
  It is in this sense that television, the great reducer, the great squasher of high hearts and innocence, is a depressing cultural voice.
- 2009, Sigrid Schmalzer, The People's Peking Man (page 81)
  Whatever their feelings about the state's heavy-handed blows on idealist scientific writings, they appear to have remained committed to their roles as squashers of superstition.

quash +? -er

quasher (plural quashers)

One who quashes.
- 1996, Juliet Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the nature of women (page 13)
  These men were not likely to be the quashers of protest, of new ideas, of rebellion against outdated orthodoxies.

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