Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that dashes, especially the plunger of an ice-cream freezer.
- n. Sports The ledge along the top of the boards of an ice rink.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which dashes or agitates, as the float of a paddle-wheel, the plunger of a churn, and the like.
- n. A dash-board.
- n. One who makes an ostentatious parade; a bold, showy, ostentatious man or woman.
Wiktionary
- n. That which dashes or agitates.
- n. US A dashboard or splashboard.
- n. archaic One who makes an ostentatious parade.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which dashes or agitates.
- n. United States A dashboard or splashboard.
- n. Low One who makes an ostentatious parade.
Examples
“A dasher is a teacher who gives lectures at a university and gives private lessons and teaches at school, all at the same time.”
“For the coach we (three passengers) were in, was built like an omnibus-sleigh on wheels, with a high seat and "dasher" in front, so that we could not see what it was that drew our ark, and therefore I climbed up in the driver's perch to overlook our motors.”
“I transferred the ice cream to another container, I spooned gobs of ice cream off the dasher down my throat until it went past numb and into sharp ache.”
“And, if I may say so, you look quite a dasher too.”
“That's the Federaction Internacional de Futbol Rapido, not Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. "Futbol rapido" is another name for soccer played with hockey-style dasher boards, reflecting the fact that it's not always played indoors.”
The Huffington Post: Beau Dure: Heralding an Indoor Soccer Renaissance?
“Its related Camp Laurel in Readfield, Maine, maintains fleets of sailboats and ski boats and has a brand new outdoor roller hockey arena, outfitted with NHL-quality dasher boards brought in from Minnesota.”
“Within minutes, though, we had collected an allotment of high-value supplies, including natural cold medication (with cardamom), decorative felt banners declaring the Krishna mantra, and a handwoven rug for my mother, available from a haber-dasher named Dinish, who gave us a good discount on account of my uncle.”
The Washington Post: A World Apart: My uncle is a Hare Krishna spiritual master
“And from Gary Disch of Ottawa, Ontario: what's the difference between a dasher and a haberdasher?”
“And that's clever - and to tie in dasher and haberdasher, that's beautiful.”
“I heard slap shots echoing off the dasher boards inside the old rink.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dasher’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Poetrie: The Deacon's Masterpiece, or...
By Oliver Wendell Holmes (sr.?). Thanks to slumry for pointing out the link (a long time ago) to this.
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a log...dunce, perplexed, huddup, ewe-necked, rat-tailed, encore, back-crossbar, whippletree, masterpiece, dasher, bison-skin, linchpin and 19 more...
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