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dasher

dasher

1 7.5
A tool for stirring or beating cream to make butter
  • noun
  • /ˈdæʃər/
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  • As I churned the cream, the dasher helped blend the ingredients into a delicious treat.

You want to eat this, you want to eat that, eat this or that and a dasher will bring it to you anywhere you are.

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Examples

  • When making ice cream, you need to use the dasher to mix the ingredients thoroughly.

  • On Sundays, we always had ice cream, and I was allowed to churn it and, of course, lick the dasher.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Sometimes the paddle is called a dasher.

  • She made her arm do its work past the point where she could feel the milk swell against the dasher, and did not look into the mouth of the churn until the breaking was well on and the butter was very near.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • The dasher is an essential tool for churning butter and ensures a smooth consistency.

Synonyms

mixer
vsdasher
37 1.5

A kitchen machine that combines and beats ingredients for cooking or baking

is the general tool for stirring or agitating foods, not only appliances
beater
vsdasher
8 3.8

A tool that mixes food or removes dust from a carpet

also refers to someone or something that moves quickly
stirrer
vsdasher
5 2.1

A small tool used to mix drinks or liquids

covers stirring plus heavier beating or agitating, not only gentle stirring
eggbeater
vsdasher
1 2.6

A hand tool with rotating blades used to beat eggs or whip cream

is a general stirring or beating tool not limited to eggs or cream
whipper
vsdasher
4.6

A person or tool that quickly mixes cream to make it light

is a tool for stirring or beating that need not act so quickly

Compounds

7.5

A soccer player who runs very fast and gets past defenders

How Vigorous

blender
96 1.0
hand mixer
1 2.8
dasher
1 7.5
to whisk
38 2.8
spoon
146 1.0

Surface Forms

dasher singular
dashers plural

Morphology

dasher = dash (transparent) = dash + er

Productive agent/instrument formation with -er from the verb 'dash' makes the meaning 'person or thing that dashes' or an implement used for dashing clear to learners.

Etymology

Dasher comes from the common verb dash, which long ago meant 'to strike' or 'to beat'. So a dasher is something that 'dashes', like the wooden tool that beats and stirs cream into butter, or any person or thing that moves quickly.