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dasher|ˈdæʃə(r)|
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1. A person who dashes; spec. one who ‘cuts a dash’; a dashing person; a ‘fast’ young woman (colloq.).
1790Dibdin Sea Songs, Old Cunwell (Farmer), My Poll, once a dasher, now turned to a nurse. 1802M. Edgeworth Almeria (1832) 292 She was astonished to find in high life a degree of vulgarity of which her country companions would have been ashamed; but all such things in high life go under the general term of dashing. These young ladies were dashers. 1807W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 361 To charter a curricle for a month, and have my cypher put on it, as is done by certain dashers of my acquaintance. 1887Pall Mall G. 23 Nov. 3/2 The fast married woman of fashion..the unmarried dasher of the same species.
2. That which dashes; spec. the contrivance for agitating the cream in a churn.
1846Rep. Comm. Patents (U.S.) (1847) 233 What I claim as my invention..is the combination of the vertical dasher with the oscillating dashers. 1848D. Drake Let. 7 Jan. in C. D. Drake Pion. Life Kentucky (1870) v. 93 The latter stages of the process [of churning], when the butter rises on the dasher. 1853Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIV. i. 74 The old-fashioned barrel-churn, the dashers of which are fixed. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. i. (1885) 26 The empty churn with its idle dasher.
3. = dash-board 1. U.S.
1858O. W. Holmes One-hoss Shay, Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide. 1859― Prof. Breakf.-t. i. (1891) 14 By no means..to put their heels through the dasher.
4. Applied to a hunting-cap.
1802Sporting Mag. XX. 314 Two new pair of Cordovan boots..and a black velvet dasher from the cap-maker.
5. A dashing attempt, movement, etc. colloq.
1884Punch 18 Oct. 186/1 Drop your curb, pluck up heart, And go at it a dasher! |