noun
- one of Santa’s reindeer in Christmas folklore
- a person who moves or acts with speed and energy
- the plunger of a butter churn
Usage: historical
Examples
- Dasher is one of the eight reindeer that pull Santa’s sleigh.
- The young dasher completed the race in record time.
- She’s quite a dasher when it comes to getting things done.
- The old butter churn had a wooden dasher for churning cream.
- The hockey puck bounced off the dasher and back into play.
- Children love hearing about Dasher and the other reindeer.
- The dasher mechanism made butter-making much easier for farmers.