1. one of Santa’s reindeer in Christmas folklore
2. a person who moves or acts with speed and energy
3. 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.