Crossword clues for dasher
dasher
- Dancer's colleague
- Cupid companion
- Commuter, at times
- Another reindeer
- A reindeer
- Vixen teammate
- Dancer's partner
- Cupid teammate
- Cohort of Comet
- Christmas reindeer
- Christmas flier
- Plunger in a churn
- Person in a hurry
- One eighth of a famous flying team
- Member of a sleigh-pulling team
- He's "up" each Christmas
- Flying reindeer
- First reindeer mentioned in "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
- Dancer's associate
- Dancer associate
- Comet teammate
- Comet companion
- A sleighmate of Dancer
- One of a team of eight
- Part of Santa's team
- One on the go
- One of Santa's team
- One of a seasonal octet
- No slowpoke
- 100-meter competitor, e.g.
- Certain Olympic contender
- One of a poetic eightsome
- Clement Moore reindeer
- One of Santa's eight
- C. Moore beast of burden
- Reindeer in 20 Across
- Sleigh puller
- Dancer's partner?
- One on the pull at Christmas — the Queen?
- Shared out presents he helps to deliver?
- One of Santa's reindeer
- One of Santa's helpers
- Member of Santa's team
- Dancer's teammate
- Reindeer name
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dasher \dash"er\ (d[a^]sh"[~e]r), n.
That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.
A dashboard or splashboard. [U. S.]
One who makes an ostentatious parade. [Low]
Wiktionary
n. 1 That which dashes or agitates. 2 (context US English) A dashboard or splashboard. 3 (context archaic English) One who makes an ostentatious parade.
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Land area (2000): 4.857149 sq. miles (12.579957 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.094442 sq. miles (0.244604 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.951591 sq. miles (12.824561 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21744
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 30.745391 N, 83.222919 W
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Dasher
Wikipedia
Dasher is an input method and computer accessibility tool which enables users to compose text without using a keyboard, by entering text on a screen with a pointing device such as a mouse, touch screen, or mice operated by the foot or head. Such instruments could serve as prosthetic devices for disabled people who cannot use standard keyboards, or where the use of one is impractical.
Dasher is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. Dasher is available for operating systems with GTK+ support, i.e. Linux, BSDs and other Unix-like, Mac OS and Microsoft Windows, Pocket PC, iOS and Android.
Dasher was invented by David J. C. MacKay and developed by David Ward and other members of MacKay's Cambridge research group. The Dasher project is supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and by the EU aegis-project.
Dasher may refer to any of the following:
- Dasher (software), a computer accessibility tool
- Dasher (Santa Claus's reindeer), one of Santa Claus's reindeer as named in "The Night Before Christmas"
- Dasher, Georgia, a town in the United States
- Volkswagen Dasher or Passat, an automobile model
- HMS Dasher (1895), a Charger-class torpedo-boat destroyer launched in 1895 and sold in 1912
- HMS Dasher (D37), an Avenger-class escort carrier launched in 1941 and sunk in 1943
- HMS Dasher (P280), an Archer-class patrol boat launched in 1986 and currently in service
- Danville Dashers, a former ice hockey team from Danville, Illinois, in the Continental Hockey League
- Dasher High School, a historic institution of secondary education in Valdosta, Georgia
- Frank Abbandando or The Dasher, a New York contract killer
- Dasher Troy, American baseball player
- Kevin Wheatley or Dasher, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Dasher, the plunger part of a butter churn
Usage examples of "dasher".
The back porch was cool with latticed shadows and there cousin Lymon sat turning the ice-cream freezer -- often he unpacked the salt and ice and removed the dasher to lick a bit and see how the work was coming on.
Captain Nutter bought me a little two-wheeled cart, which she drew quite nicely, after kicking out the dasher and breaking the shafts once or twice.
Meanwhile, Metra City will go halves with its new hero, the daring Dasher.
I suppose the most striking, au fait de beaute, as Mama would say, was the redheaded dasher, with the quiz of a brother, but, for my part, I prefer Miss Chartley's style—and her parents!
Not striking au fait de beaute, and too much of a Long Meg for his taste, but a distinguished-looking woman: nothing of the dasher about her!
Frantically, he scrabbled for the weapon, but the first of the dashers hit the net head-on and their momentum rocked the coracle.
And when they floated, they could only encourage dashers and other predators to new heights of aggression.
Even though dashers preferred warm-blooded meat, they'd go for anything that moved when they were hungry.
As the coracle neared the clump, Twisp counted seven adults and a tighter cluster of young dashers in the center of the group.
Up close now he could see how dashers had adapted so quickly to water.
Legend said dashers once had feared the water, that the hollow hairs insulated them then against cold nights and oven-hot days among the desert rocks.
Most dashers had shed the hood in the sea, becoming sleek killing machines with saber fangs and those knife-sharp claws, almost fifteen centimeters long on the bigger animals.
He knew this fear of dashers was foolishness, something they'd laugh about someday .
There came the unmistakable splash of something stiffening in the water close behind, then the frenzied whines and chuckles of dashers feeding.
At the second shot, the dashers erupted in a frantic cacophony of yelps and screeches.