dashers

The idea, which has been used in other sports such as Olympic skiing, is to overlay replays of various athletes — in this case 40-yard dashers — to compare things like who sped up and who slowed down.

With Emmitt Smith out, could ESPN get Brett Favre? 2009

Kevin Pietersen apart, the durable technicians rather than the dashers have scored the runs; Cook and Jonathan Trott just kept on batting.

The Ashes 2010: Virtues of modern age help England join select band | Vic Marks 2010

The first line of the book exemplifies the flowery writing throughout: “Doomed, a painted skimmer cuts (cuts a hundred bias lines per minute) air rich with midges: curves past blue dashers (out for midges, too); breaks through pickerel weeds; stops short on a nodding monocot: a rush for rest.”

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The carhops at Stan's fed the Temple boys for free -- so they'd chase down check dashers and pry money out of them.

My Dark Places Ellroy, James, 1948- 1996

All conditions being perfect, those with crank and revolving dashers effect freezing in eight to fifteen minutes.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

None of these old back-breaking, up-and-down dashers for me.

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

By the by, she had one other fault that I had almost forgotten, and that was of elevating her heels against the dashers of wagons, when she had an ugly fit, which took place semi-occasionally, and the peculiarity of it was that she was not particular as to time or place where she made her exhibitions.

Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

Their dashers dashed without ceasing, keeping perfect time.

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

"Ah!" renewed the arbiter elegantiarum, who had not heard Mauleverer's observation, which was uttered in a very low voice, -- "ah! they seem real dashers!"

Paul Clifford — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Ah!" renewed the arbiter elegantiarum, who had not heard Mauleverer's observation, which was uttered in a very low voice, -- "ah! they seem real dashers!"

Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838