Definition of "dasher" [dash•er]

• One that dashes, especially the plunger of an ice-cream freezer. (noun)
• Sports The ledge along the top of the boards of an ice rink. (noun)

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• "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."