Definition of Dasher

1. n. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.

Definition of Dasher

1. Noun. That which dashes or agitates. ¹

2. Noun. (American English) A dashboard or splashboard. ¹

3. Noun. (archaic) One who makes an ostentatious parade. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dasher

1. one that dashes [n -S] - See also: dashes

Medical Definition of Dasher

1. 1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. 3. One who makes an ostentatious parade. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dasher

dases
dash
dash-pot
dash cherry
dash down
dash off
dashboard
dashboarded
dashboarding
dashboards
dashed
dasheen
dasheens
dasheki
dashekis
dasher (current term)
dashers
dashes
dashi
dashier
dashiest
dashiki
dashikis
dashing
dashing hopes
dashingly
dashingness
dashis
dashism
dashkovaite

Literary usage of Dasher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to Boston and Environs (1899)
"Green car marked " Forest Hills" on dasher and " Forest Hills " on end signs. ... Green or yellow car marked " Roxbury and Charlestown" on dasher and ..."

2. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1850)
"The first impulse seems to have been given by the grant of a patent for a churn in which there were boxes upon opposite tides of a common revolving dasher, ..."

3. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1850)
"The first impulse seems to hare been given by the grant of a patent for a churn in which there were boxes upon opposite tides of a common revolving dasher, ..."

4. Dairy Technology: A Treatise on the City Milk Supply, Milk as a Food, Ice by Christian Larsen, William M. White (1913)
"Speed of dasher. — The speed of the dasher must be such that the cream will be ... In the vertical batch freezers, the dasher commonly makes 90 to 100 ..."

5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"dasher, FGS, and the block annexed, are taken by permission from the letterpress issued with the last set of the first published series of " British ..."

6. Milch Cows and Dairy Farming, Comprising the Breeds, Breeding, and by Thomas Horsfall, Charles Louis Flint (1888)
"103, where several levers are united to produce the upward and downward motion of the dasher. The longer arm of the lever is connected with the churn, ..."

7. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"dasher, so situated that as the dasher revolved, the box containing the cream, with its open mouth downwards, carried down a portion of the air to the ..."

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