dashn.1
/daʃ/, U.S. /dæʃ/ 1. A violent blow, stroke, impact, or collision, such as smashes or might smash.With quot. 1587 cf. dash v. 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > [noun] > forcible, heavy, or violent
piltinga1250
racec1330
squatc1350
dasha1375
percussion?a1425
peise1490
poise1490
dashing1580
gulp1598
jolt1599
feeze1603
slam1622
arietation1625
pash1677
pulse1677
jounce1784
smash1808
smashing1821
dush1827
birr1830
dunch1831
whop1895
a1375 Lay-Folks Mass-bk. App. iv. 351 Wiþ his hed he yaf a dasch Aȝeyn þe Marbelston.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. lxxix Syr Ector..gaf sire Palomydes suche a dasshe with a swerd.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1153/2 He offered to hir his cloke, which she (putting it backe with hir hand with a good dash) refused.
1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 22 Let me alone, or I will give you a dash on the teeth.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 86 The Water falling sometimes from a Height..and meeting in the Passage with many Dashes and Interruptions.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 101 The Dash of Clouds, or irritating War Of fighting Winds.
1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. i. v. 38 Whistling..in time to the dash of the oars.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb]
soonc825
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
rekeneOE
rekenlyOE
thereright971
anonOE
forth ona1000
coflyc1000
ferlyc1000
radlyOE
swiftlyc1000
unyoreOE
yareOE
at the forme (also first) wordOE
nowOE
shortlya1050
rightOE
here-rightlOE
right anonlOE
anonc1175
forthrightc1175
forthwithalc1175
skeetc1175
swithc1175
with and withc1175
anon-rightc1225
anon-rights?c1225
belivec1225
lightly?c1225
quickly?c1225
tidelyc1225
fastlyc1275
hastilyc1275
i-radlichec1275
as soon asc1290
aright1297
bedenea1300
in little wevea1300
withoute(n dwella1300
alrightc1300
as fast (as)c1300
at firstc1300
in placec1300
in the placec1300
mididonec1300
outrightc1300
prestc1300
streck13..
titec1300
without delayc1300
that stounds1303
rada1325
readya1325
apacec1325
albedenec1330
as (also also) titec1330
as blivec1330
as line rightc1330
as straight as linec1330
in anec1330
in presentc1330
newlyc1330
suddenlyc1330
titelyc1330
yernec1330
as soon1340
prestly1340
streckly1340
swithly?1370
evenlya1375
redelya1375
redlya1375
rifelya1375
yeplya1375
at one blastc1380
fresha1382
ripelyc1384
presentc1385
presently1385
without arrestc1385
readilyc1390
in the twinkling of a looka1393
derflya1400
forwhya1400
skeetlya1400
straighta1400
swifta1400
maintenantc1400
out of handc1400
wightc1400
at a startc1405
immediately1420
incontinent1425
there and then1428
onenec1429
forwithc1430
downright?a1439
agatec1440
at a tricec1440
right forth1440
withouten wonec1440
whipc1460
forthwith1461
undelayed1470
incessantly1472
at a momentc1475
right nowc1475
synec1475
incontinently1484
promptly1490
in the nonce?a1500
uncontinent1506
on (upon, in) the instant1509
in short1513
at a clap1519
by and by1526
straightway1526
at a twitch1528
at the first chop1528
maintenantly1528
on a tricea1529
with a tricec1530
at once1531
belively1532
straightwaysa1533
short days1533
undelayedly1534
fro hand1535
indelayedly1535
straight forth1536
betimesc1540
livelyc1540
upononc1540
suddenly1544
at one (or a) dash?1550
at (the) first dash?1550
instantly1552
forth of hand1564
upon the nines1568
on the nail1569
at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572
indilately1572
summarily1578
at one (a) chop1581
amain1587
straightwise1588
extempore1593
presto1598
upon the place1600
directly1604
instant1604
just now1606
with a siserary1607
promiscuously1609
at (in) one (an) instant1611
on (also upon) the momenta1616
at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617
hand to fist1634
fastisha1650
nextly1657
to rights1663
straightaway1663
slap1672
at first bolt1676
point-blank1679
in point1680
offhand1686
instanter1688
sonica1688
flush1701
like a thought1720
in a crack1725
momentary1725
bumbye1727
clacka1734
plumba1734
right away1734
momentarily1739
momentaneously1753
in a snap1768
right off1771
straight an end1778
abruptedly1784
in a whistle1784
slap-bang1785
bang?1795
right off the reel1798
in a whiff1800
in a flash1801
like a shot1809
momently1812
in a brace or couple of shakes1816
in a gird1825
(all) in a rush1829
in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830
straightly1830
toot sweetc1830
in two twos1838
rectly1843
quick-stick1844
short metre1848
right1849
at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854
off the hooks1860
quicksticks1860
straight off1873
bang off1886
away1887
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890
ek dum1895
tout de suite1895
bung1899
one time1899
prompt1910
yesterday1911
in two ups1934
presto changeo1946
now-now1966
presto change1987
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 37 (R.) He heapeth me in, an whole halfe leafe at a dash, out of Saynt Augustyne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iii. 50 She takes vpon her brauely at first dash . View more context for this quotation
1627 H. Leslie Serm. before His Majesty 4 Wee are not made absolute entire Christians at the first dash.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. v. 202 So brisk an Article as this at first dash, and before the King would proceed to any further Treaty..would startle the Spanish Gravity.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 753 What? At first dash so to jear and frump your friend?
1699 W. Hacke Coll. Orig. Voy. ii. 9 In..danger, to lose both our Lives and all our substance at one dash.
1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg ii. 48 Designing to immortalize himself and his Patron at a Dash.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > severe or sudden
shake1565
cut1568
dash1580
knock1649
shock1654
blow1678
stroke1686
black eye1712
1580 Apol. Pr. Orange in Phœnix (1721) I. 450 That the Course of his Life be found blessed..without any dash, blow, stumbling.
1629 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. v. 48 I have received many..dashes and heavy strokes, since the Lord called me to the ministry.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 287 The glory of manifested justice in giving of His foes a dash.
a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) vii. 135 This gave me a sore dash.
4.
a. The violent throwing and breaking of water (or other liquid) upon or against anything; a splash; a sudden heavy fall of rain; †concrete a portion of water splashed up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > an instance or the result of
dash1570
dashing1591
splasha1822
splosh1857
splather1877
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ciiiv/1 A Dashe, labes, aspersio.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 8 To giue her harbour..till the dash and storme be ouer.
1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) ii. xiv. 452 During the ebullition..a great many little dashes of water do fly about.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Gust We say a Dash of Rain, for a sudden, short, impetuous Beat of Rain.
1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 247 Dr. Macneil seems..to think the sponging is better than the dash.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. v. 80 He's coming round finely, now he's had a dash of cowd water.
b. The sound of dashing; esp. the splashing sound of water striking or being struck.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splashing
plashing1542
flounce1622
dash1785
plash1808
splasha1822
splosh1857
slush1880
sloshing1888
sploshing1929
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 186 Music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore.
1820 W. Scott Abbot III. viii. 266 Why did ye not muffle the oars?..the dash must awaken the centinel.
5. † c. A slight specimen, a touch; = cast n. 9. Obsolete.
a. A small portion (of colour, etc.) as it were dashed or thrown carelessly upon a surface.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [noun] > splash of colour
dash1713
splash1832
stab1894
splatter1969
1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 7 May 2/2 The rosie dashes of Light which adorn the Clouds of the Morning and Evening.
1884 J. T. Bent in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 426/1 Syra is almost entirely a white town, relieved now and again by a dash of yellow wash.
b. A small quantity (of something) thrown into or mingled as a qualifying admixture with something else; an infusion, touch, tinge. Usually figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount
speckc725
littleOE
somethingc1200
lutewihtc1230
little whatc1384
ouncec1387
lap1393
smalla1400
modicumc1400
nekedc1400
spota1413
tinec1420
nieveful?a1425
handfulc1443
mouthful?c1450
smatchc1456
weec1480
quern1503
halfpennyworth1533
groatsworth1562
dram1566
shellful1578
trickle1580
snatch1592
sprinkling1594
fleck1598
snip1598
pittance1600
lick1603
fingerful1604
modicum1606
thimbleful1607
flash1614
dasha1616
pipa1616
pickle1629
drachm1635
cue1654
smack1693
starn1720
bit1753
kenning1787
minikin1787
tate1805
starnie1808
sprat1815
harl1821
skerrick1825
smallums1828
huckleberry1832
scrimp1840
thimble1841
smite1843
nattering1859
sensation1859
spurt1859
pauchlea1870
mention1891
sketch1894
sputterings1894
scrappet1901
titch1937
tad1940
skosh1959
smattering1973
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a slight touch or trace
specec1330
taste1390
lisounc1400
savourc1400
smatcha1500
smell?a1505
spice1531
smack1539
shadow1586
surmise1586
relish1590
tang1593
touch1597
stain1609
tincture1612
dasha1616
soula1616
twanga1640
whiff1644
haut-goût1650
casta1661
stricturea1672
tinge1736
tinct1752
vestige1756
smattering1764
soupçon1766
smutch1776
shade1791
suspicion1809
lineament1811
trait1815
tint1817
trace1827
skiff1839
spicing1844
smudgea1871
ghost1887
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. ii. 112 Now (had I not the dash of my former life in me) would Preferment drop on my head. View more context for this quotation
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 892 A thing..not Sincerely Good, but such as hath a great Dash or Dose of Evil blended with it.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 293 It makes most delicate Punch; but it must have a dash of Brandy to hearten it.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 299. ¶2 I..resolved that my Descendents should have a Dash of good Blood in their Veins.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 335 There was a dash of eccentricity and enterprize in his character.
ΚΠ
a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 161 He gave A. W. a dash of his office.
6. A hasty stroke of the pen.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [noun] > stroke
linea1382
tittlec1384
stroke1567
minim1587
pot-hook1611
dash1615
hair-stroke1634
hook1668
foot stroke1676
stem1676
duct1699
hanger1738
downstroke?1760
hairline1846
up-stroke1848
skit1860
pot-crook1882
ligature1883
coupling-stroke1906
bow1914
ductus1922
ascender1934
1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 414 And thus by meere chaunce with a little dash I have drawne the picture of a Pigmey.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 310 With one dash to blot it out of the holy Calender.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 20 That this was done by the temerarious dashes of an unguided Pen.
1803 J. Mackintosh Def. Peltier in Wks. (1846) III. 246 Fifty Imperial towns have been erased from the list of independent states, by one dash of the pen.
7. A stroke or line (usually short and straight) made with a pen or the like, or resembling one so made: spec.
Thesaurus »
Categories »
a. Such a mark drawn through writing for erasure.
Thesaurus »
Categories »
b. A stroke forming part of a letter or other written or printed character, or used as a flourish in writing.
Thesaurus »
c. A horizontal stroke of varying length (-, —, ——) used in writing or printing to mark a pause or break in a sentence, a parenthetic clause, an omission of words or letters or of the intermediate terms of a series, to separate distinct portions of matter, or for other purposes; sometimes implying the use of strong language; hence as a mild substitute for devil.
Categories »
d. Music. A short vertical mark (ˈ) placed above or beneath a note to indicate that it is to be performed staccato.
e. A linear marking, as if made with a pen, on the wings of insects, etc.
ΚΠ
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dashe or stryke with a penne, litura.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. iv. f. 6 Hauing cancelled the first figure of the multiplyer, by making a Dash through it with your pen.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. sig. C Marke her dashes, & her strokes, and her breakings, and her bendings?
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xiii. 177 Making a dash with a pen vnder euery falt.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 470. ¶10 The Transcriber, who probably mistook the Dash of the I. for a T.
1733 J. Swift On Poetry 8 In modern Wit all printed Trash, is Set off with num'rous Breaks —— and Dashes —.
1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 168 The Dash, though often used improperly..may be introduced with propriety, where the sentence breaks off abruptly, where a significant pause is required, or where there is an unexpected turn in the sentiment.
1848 E. F. Rimbault First Bk. Pianoforte 63 The Dash requires a more separate and distinct manner of performance than the Point.
1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Introd. p. xiii Passages that are illegible in the MS...are indicated by dashes, thus — — —.
1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxviii. 259 Who the Dash is this person..and what the Dash does he here?
1899 A. Nicholas Idyl of Wabash (ed. 2) 64 A dreadful thought which if put in print would have contained a dash.
f. One of the two signals (the other being the dot) which in various combinations make up the letters of the Morse alphabet. Also dash-and-dot, more usually dot-and-dash (dot n.1 and prep. Compounds).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > code > Morse code > signs in
dot1838
dash1859
long1867
short1891
dah1942
dit1942
V-sign1959
1859 T. P. Shaffner Telegr. Man. 469 Whether the dots, spaces, and dashes be long or short, they should be uniform.
1873 F. Jenkin Electr. & Magn. xxii. §4 Morse signals are sent by a simple key... A short depression or mere tap sends the short elementary signal technically called a dot; a longer depression sends the second elementary signal technically called a dash.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Suppl. Dash-and-dot, consisting of dashes and dots; as, the dash-and-dot alphabet.
1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xx. 268 The sound was regular and concerted—dot, dash, dot—dash, dot, dot…the longs and shorts of the Morse Code.
1942 Electronic Engin. 15 36 On automatic sending it transmits S.O.S. three times followed by a long dash.
8. A sudden impetuous movement, a rush; a sudden vigorous attack or onset. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > impetuous > a headlong course or rush
ram-race1513
fling1556
loose1700
dash1809
fudder1866
1809 Adm. Cochrane in Naval Chron. 26 164 Our loss in this little dash has..been severe.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. v. 73 He..made up his mind..to make a dash..for something more than a mere speaking acquaintance.
1885 Manch. Examiner 25 Feb. 5/2 The dash was successfully made across the desert to Metammeh.
9.
a. Spirited vigour of action; capacity for prompt and vigorous action.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun]
greennesseOE
lustinessc1325
forcea1375
vigourc1386
virrc1575
vigour1602
nerve1605
vivacity1649
vis1650
actuosity1660
amenity1661
vogue1674
energy1783
smeddum1790
dash1796
throughput1808
feck1811
go1825
steam1826
jism1842
vim1843
animalism1848
fizz1856
jasm1860
verve1863
snap1865
sawdusta1873
élan1880
stingo1885
energeticism1891
sprawl1894
zip1899
pep1908
jazz1912
zoom1926
toe1963
zap1968
stank1997
1796 Mod. Gulliver's Trav. 50 I began now to suspect I was with sharpers..and correcting my dash, betted cautiously.
1808 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 95 The affair..was occasioned..by the imprudence of the officer, and the dash and eagerness of the men.
1866 D. Livingstone Jrnl. I. v. 120 In dash and courage they are deficient.
b. to do one's dash (Australian colloquial), see quots. 1916, 1966; to have a dash (at) (colloquial), to make an attempt.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)]
fandOE
assayc1300
tryc1315
provec1330
adventurea1387
sayc1390
paina1400
havec1400
practisea1450
afforcec1487
afond1488
attempta1538
procure1574
endeavour1581
offer1611
poacha1616
attent1620
to venture at1623
essay1641
attentate1656
smacka1657
tempt1697
to try at1794
to have a go1802
to make a (good, poor, etc.) fist1833
tackle1847
to have or take a whack at1891
to make (or have, etc.) a stab at (something)1895
to have a dash (at)1916
1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 121 To do one's dash, to reach one's Waterloo.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iii. 37 The blighter's manner was so cold and unchummy that I bit the bullet and had a dash at being airy.
1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves 147 I supposed I had better have a dash at it and get it over.
1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vii. 152 It is tempting to wonder whether the expression ‘he's done his dash’ meaning ‘he is played out’, ‘he has done all he can’ is connected with the gold-miner's dashing.
10. A gay or showy appearance, display, parade: usually in to cut a dash, to make a display (see cut v. 25), in Scottish to cast a dash.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
1715 A. Pennecuik Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale 16 Large and orderly Terrace Walks, which in their Summer Verdure cast a bonny Dash at distance.
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath i. 19 The squire don't intend to cut a dash till the spring.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 138 Daft gowk..Are ye come here..To cast a dash at Reikie's cross..?
1842 Peter Parley's Ann. 246 Mrs. Cloff was for cutting a dash, giving large dinner-parties.
1887 Punch 12 Mar. 125/1 My wife and girls will wish to cut a dash.
11. Sporting. (a) A race run in one heat. U.S. (b) A sprint. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > types of race
quarter-mile1611
dead1635
diaulos1706
quarter1779
dead heat1796
match race1804
dash1836
sprint race1836
mile1851
road race1852
time trial1857
decider1858
all-ages1864
rough-up1864
hippodrome1867
distance running1868
team race1869
run-off1873
relay race1878
walk-away1879
title race1905
tortoise race1913
procession1937
stage1943
pace1968
prologue1973
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > race run in one heat
dash1836
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > racing specific distance
dash1836
middle distance1885
marathon1896
miling1913
four-minute mile1955
ultra1977
ultra-running1978
ultra-run1986
1836 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 20 Feb. 5/3 Or, I will make two races, for one thousand dollars each, give you fifty yards in a dash of one mile, and one hundred yards in a dash of two miles.
1881 Standard 7 Sept. 5/2 They have certainly coined..the word ‘dash’, to signify a race run in one heat.
1895 Chicago Tribune 24 May 11/4 At least three of the rivals likely to meet in the 100-yard dash are said to be capable of tying the intercollegiate record.
1948 P.C.C. Chron. (Pasadena, Calif.) 31 Mar. 4/5 Anderson took a third in the open 100 yard dash.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 665/1 Distances up to and including 220 yd. are, in the United States, called dashes.
12.
a. = dashboard n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > board or leather apron at front
apron1790
dashing-leather1794
knee-boot1794
splashing-board1809
splash-board1826
boot1828
dashboard1847
apron-cloth1857
dasher1858
dash1868
splasher1887
storm apron1895
1868 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1867 I. 481/2 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 96) X Carriage Boot..January 15, 1867. The apron is combined with a dash cover.
1874 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.
1893 (used by an Oxford coach-builder in letter).
1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards ii. 15 He says the buggy dash is pretty well scratched up.
b. Now esp. in motor vehicles; = dashboard n. 1b.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > instrument panel or dashboard
instrument board1839
instrument panel1897
dash1902
dashboard1904
fascia-board1924
fascia1955
fascia-panel1957
1902 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Dec. 13/2 Kysh's hands juggling with the levers behind the discreet backward sloping dash.
1906 Daily Chron. 14 Nov. 9/3 The coil and commutator, being fixed on the dash, are always in front of the driver.
1919 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 9) 253 A second lamp placed somewhere on the dash.
1929 Daily Express 10 Jan. 3/1 The car is fitted with electrical devices with lights on the dashfront to keep the driver informed when anything goes wrong with the lubrication or the ignition.
1944 Coast to Coast 1943 163 They got in the truck and by the light from the dash Black read the slip.
1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxvii. 205 I fitted the key into the truck's dash and backed off.
13. The dasher n. of a churn, esp. the plunger of the old upright or dash-churn; hence dash-boards, the fixed beaters in a barrel-churn.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > churning butter > churning-staff
churn-staff?a1500
churning-staff1768
dash1796
plunger1838
churning-stick1840
churn-dasher1845
dasher1847
churn-dash1860
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > churning butter > churn
churnc1000
kirn1338
butter churn1577
churning-tub1580
barrel-churn1741
plunge churn1793
box churn1810
table churn1828
dash-churn1865
churner1888
1796 in Repertory of Arts (1797) VII. 290 Specification of the Patent granted to Mr. William Raley, of Newbald, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. November 10, 1796... O, the moving dashes or breakers.
1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words
1865 Harper's Mag. Mar. 541/2 Last summer Joe bought an old-fashioned dash churn.
1877 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs.
1963 Times 18 May 11/5 Meadar loinithe is a plunging or dash churn.
Compounds
dash-guard n. the metal plate which protects the platform of a tram-car from being splashed by the horses.
dash-lamp n. a carriage lamp fixed in the centre of the dashboard or ‘dash’.
dash-light n. a light on the dashboard of a motor vehicle.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > instrument panel or dashboard > lights on
telltale1905
dash-light1926
1926 Catholic Mirror June 47 ‘Don't they call this the dash light?’ she queried, fingering the little nickel-plated illuminator.
1935 M. G. Eberhart Cases of Susan Dare 285 His mouth tightened in the little glow from the dashlight.
ΚΠ
1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 120 The dash Lines..above and below, are added only when the Notes ascend above the Staff, or descend below it.
dash-rule n. Printing a ‘rule’ or strip of metal for printing a dash across a column or page.
ΚΠ
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dash-rule.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
dashn.2
A gift, present, gratuity; = dashee n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun]
givec888
lakeOE
presentc1230
giftc1275
garrison1297
benefit1377
beneficec1380
givinga1382
handsela1393
donativec1430
oblation1433
propine1448
presentationc1460
don1524
sportule1538
premie?1548
first penny1557
donation1577
exhibition1579
donary1582
fairing1584
merced1589
gifture1592
meed1613
recado1615
regalo1622
regale1649
dation1656
compliment1702
dashee1705
dash1788
cadeau1808
bestowment1837
potlatch1844
prez.1919
Harry Freeman's1925
pressie1933
1788 A. Falconbridge Acct. Slave Trade 7 The Kings of Bonny..to whom..they usually make presents (in that country termed dashes).
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dash, the present with which bargains are sealed on the coast of Africa.
1881 J. E. H. Thomson Mem. G. Thomson ix. 119 We called in the head man and gave him a dash proportioned to the kindness with which he had received us.
Derivatives
dash v.2 to give a present to, to ‘tip’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > give as a present or make a present of > give present to
dashee1735
dash1861
1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. xiii. 191 I..offered to dash him (give him some presents).
1881 J. E. H. Thomson Mem. G. Thomson x. 139 The head man had dashed him a hog.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
dashv.
/daʃ/, U.S. /dæʃ/ I. Transitive senses.
1.
a. To strike with violence so as to break into fragments; to break in pieces by a violent stroke or collision; to smash. Now generally with complement, as to dash to pieces; but the simple dash is still said of the action of wind or rain in beating, bruising, and disfiguring flowers or plants.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > beat or dash to pieces
to-slaya700
to-beatc893
to-torvec1000
to-hurtc1230
to-busta1250
to-dashc1275
dash1297
crazec1369
to-bray1382
to-flap1382
quasha1387
to-rusha1387
astone1440
stun1470
beat1570
to-swinge-
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 51 Þe pykes smyte hem þoru out..And daschte and a dreynte fourty schippes.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 540 [Thei] with axes thuder come, & that ȝat to hewe, & to dasse.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 9051 (Mätz.) The hors chine he dassed a-to.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. ii. 98 The splitting Rockes..would not dash me with their ragged sides. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 8 A braue vessell..Dash'd all to peeces. View more context for this quotation
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 142 As if one should with his foote dash a little childs house of oystershels.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 116 He fell amongst the rocks, and was dashed to pieces.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 101 Altho' we dash'd Your cities into shards with catapults.
1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 11 The waves had dashed to pieces a large number of his ships.
1894 N.E.D. at Dash Mod. The roses were beautiful, before they were so dashed by the wind and rain.
b. To strike violently against.Without implication of smashing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > forcibly or violently
beatOE
to run against ——a1425
smitec1450
quash1548
dash1611
kick1667
lashc1694
daud?1719
besmite1829
buck1861
tund1885
ram1897
prang1942
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Talemouser, to cuffe, or dash on the lips.
1624 Aphor. of State in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 495 With the like thunderbolt, to dash the heads of the sacred Empire.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xxv. 746 The oars of Theodosius dashed the waves of the Hyperborean ocean.
1847 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life II. viii. 136 Like brilliant islands..vainly dashed by the dark waters of human history.
2. † b. To drive impetuously forth or out, cause to rush together. Obsolete.
a. To knock, drive, throw, or thrust (away, down, out, etc.) with a violent stroke or collision.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > violently
shoveOE
swengea1225
slata1250
sleata1250
dashc1290
thringa1300
hurlc1305
lashc1330
to ding downc1380
rampenc1390
dinga1400
reelc1400
rash1485
flounce1582
squat1658
ram1718
whang1820
slug1862
slam1870
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 344/147 And daschte þe tiez [= teeth] out of is heued.
a1400–50 Alexander 3882 A brand and a briȝt schild bremely he hentis..Dasches dragons doun.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iii. 53 I shall..Dash out my franticke braines. View more context for this quotation
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 268 It [rain] is naturally drunk in, not dash'd in by force.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 383 The brushing Oars, and brazen prow Dash up the sandy Waves.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 64 Dashing from him the snake which was about to sting him.
1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) x. 112 While she, dashing away her tears, looked for something to do.
ΚΠ
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clvii. 191 Then thenglyshmen dashed forthe their horses after the frenchmen.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxlii. 538 Lorde Langurant..couched his speare..and so dyde Bernarde, and dasshed to their horses.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 922/2 The king..pulled downe his visar..and dashed out such a pleasant countenance and cheere, that all..reioised verie much.
3. To throw, thrust, drive, or impel (something) against, upon, into (something else) with a violence that breaks or smashes; to impel (a thing) into violent and destructive contact with something:† c. With reversed construction: to dash one in the teeth with (something): to ‘cast it in one's teeth’. Obsolete. (Cf. cast v. 65.)
a. a solid body. (Also figurative)
ΚΠ
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 507/1 He dasshed my heed agaynst the postes.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 24 He foorthwith dashed his spurres into his horse and fled.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xiii. §8. 444 In so doing he dasheth himselfe against a notable Text.
1720 W. R. Chetwood Voy. Capt. R. Falconer ii. 8 Least another Wave should dash me against it [sc. the rock].
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 401 A violent storm of wind dashed her..stern first, against a floe of ice.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vii. 122 [He] dashed his right fist full against one of the panels.
b. To splash (water or other liquid) violently upon or against something.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > violently
dash1697
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 63 The Waves on heaps are dash'd against the Shoar. View more context for this quotation
1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 350 Dashing the salt water in our faces.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > make accusation [phrase]
to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handc1300
to lay the blame on1393
to give the wrong to?1473
to lay in (his) neckc1515
to cast (any one) in the teeth1526
to cast (a thing) in one's teeth1526
to lay to (also cast in) a person's nose1526
to dash one in the teeth with (something)1530
call to or in coram1542
to cast (also lay, throw) (something) in one's dish1551
to throw (cast) a stone or stones (at)1568
to cast up1604
to nail to the barn door1894
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > so as to hit something > forcibly or violently
smitec1300
pashc1390
beswak?a1513
dash1530
smashc1800
slap1836
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 507/1 I dasshe one in the tethe with a lye or a glosynge tale, Jembouche..What nedest thou to dasshe me in the tethe with the monaye thou haste lente me.
4. figurative.1621 First & Second Bk. Discipline (Church of Scotl.) Pref. Some will dash you by the odious name of Puritan.1633 G. Herbert Marie Magdalene in Temple iii Her sinnes did dash Ev'n God himself.
a. To bespatter or splash (a thing) with anything (e.g. water or mud) cast with force or violence upon or against it.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > splash or splatter
slotterc1340
again-sprengea1382
resperse1482
besparkle1485
besperple1529
dash1530
bespattle1551
slobber1554
bespurt1579
besquatter1611
besquirt1611
bespurtle1616
bespatter1674
splash1699
spatter1718
spark1806
spluttera1869
splatter1888
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)]
drenchc1000
washc1275
drowna1300
drunkena1300
drunka1382
bewetc1400
bedrenchc1450
bucka1513
sowp1513
drooka1522
sousea1542
soaken1577
overdrown1579
soss1587
embay1590
steep1590
overdrencha1592
embathe1593
indrench1593
imbue1594
douse1606
besob1609
bucket1621
sob1625
dash1670
sop1682
saturate1696
float1729
water1754
sodden1812
douche1864
poach1881
tosh1883
sod1895
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 507/1 I dasshe, I araye with myer, Je crotte. Your horse hath all to dasshed me.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. vi. 273 The Sea..came rowling on, and without reverence both wet and dash'd him.
1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 166 Some Whales blow Blood to the very last..and these dash the Men in the Long-boats most filthily.
1785 H. Walpole Mod. Gardening (R.) Vast basins of marble dashed with perpetual cascades.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. viii. 263 The face may be dashed with cold water.
b. To put out (fire) by dashing water upon it.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 5 But that the Sea..Dashes the fire out. View more context for this quotation
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxvii. 325 Rows of fire-buckets for dashing out a conflagration.
c. past participle. Marked as with splashes.
ΚΠ
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xliv. 202 Floures..poudered or dashte with small spottes.
1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 195 The top of the head, the back, and the tail black; the rump is dashed with ash.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxi. 113 Deep tulips dasht with fiery dew. View more context for this quotation
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxvii. 452 The sea was dashed with a wild glare of crimson.
5.
a. To affect or qualify (anything) with an element of a different strain thrown into it; to mingle, temper, qualify, dilute with some (usually inferior) admixture. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > adulterate
adulterc1384
feigna1398
sophisticatec1400
infect?1440
counterfeit1495
adulterate?1526
dash1548
falsify1562
elay1573
abuse1574
base1581
corrupt1581
debase1591
adulterize1593
compass1594
sophisticate1604
allay1634
huckster1642
hucksterize1646
cauponize1652
alloy1661
balderdash1674
impurify1693
doctor1726
vitiate1728
sand1851
dope1898
1548 R. Crowley Confut. N. Shaxton A. iii. (R.) Youre sermons dashed ful of sorowful teares and depe sighings.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cvii. 95 Boyle them [sc. fruit] againe with sufficient sugar, to dash them with sweete water.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 32 Notable Virtues are sometimes dashed with notorious Vices.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician v. 137 Vinegar..dashed with water..is an Antidote against drunkenness.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 267. ¶8 To dash the Truth with Fiction.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton vi Dash the lemonade with a little maraschino.
1853 R. C. Trench On Lessons in Proverbs 141 The pleasures of sin..are largely dashed with its pains.
b. Coal Mining. To mix (fire-damp) with air till the mixture ceases to be inflammable.
ΚΠ
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 21 Dashing Air, mixing air and gas together, until..the mixture ceases to be inflammable.
6. figurative. To destroy, ruin, confound, bring to nothing, frustrate, spoil (a design, enterprise, hope, etc.): cf. smash v.1 In 16–17th centuries the usual word for the rejection of a bill in Parliament, and frequent in various applications; now Obsolete except in to dash (any one's) hopes. (Cf. 7.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A5 He shal be excommunicate and then be all his accions dasshed.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 240/1 All the hope of Anselme was dasht.
1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. ii. 41 As the crie of yea or no is bigger, so the bill is allowed or dashed.
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 3 A warre with France, must be the way To dash this Bill.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) i. 59 Those hopes were no sooner conceived then dasht.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vi. 157 So the design was wholly dashed.
1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 214 To dash what arguments may be brought from hence.
1840 Chartist Circular No. 5. 225 This dashes the bit-by-bit system [of reform].
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 143 Dunstan's hopes were again dashed by the news of Edward's death.
7. † c. to dash (a person) out of countenance (conceit, courage). Obsolete.
a. To cast down, depress; to daunt, dispirit, discourage.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)]
drearya1300
discomfortc1325
batec1380
to cast downa1382
to throw downa1382
dullc1386
faintc1386
discomfita1425
discourage1436
sinkc1440
mischeera1450
discheerc1454
amatea1500
bedowa1522
damp1548
quail1548
dash1550
exanimate1552
afflict1561
dank1565
disanimate1565
sadden1565
languish1566
deject1581
dumpc1585
unheart1593
mope1596
chill1597
sour1600
disgallant1601
disheart1603
dishearten1606
fainten1620
depress1624
sullen1628
tristitiate1628
disliven1631
dampen1633
weigh1640
out-spirit1643
dispirit1647
flat1649
funeralize1654
hearta1658
disencourage1659
attrist1680
flatten1683
dismalizec1735
blue-devil1812
out-heart1845
downweigh1851
to get down1861
frigidize1868
languor1891
downcast1914
neg1987
1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle v. sig. Cv How small soeuer their temptacion, or plage is, theyr hart is dashyd.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 466/1 We shalbe all dasht that our prayers do but soare in the ayre.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 218 I see this hath a little dasht your spirits. View more context for this quotation
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe ii. 16 Why did you speak? yo've dash'd my Fancy quite.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. ix. 295 We, dash'd with terror, heard the growl Of his big voice.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxvi. 238 This discouraging information a little dashed the child.
1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 167 Somewhat dashed, we went down..to the spot where my horse had fallen with me.
b. To confound, put to shame, abash.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > shame [verb (transitive)] > abash
abashc1384
rebash?1473
to put out of countenancec1500
to dash (a person) out of countenance (conceit, courage)1530
deface1537
dash1570
discountenance1584
disgrace1607
debash1610
out-nose1624
to put out of face1821
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1904/1 Frier Bucknham..was so dashed, that neuer after he durst peepe out of the Pulpit agaynst M. Latymer.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 576 An honest man; looke you, and soone dasht . View more context for this quotation
1637 J. Milton Comus 16 Chast austeritie..That dash't brute violence With sudden adoration, and blancke aw.
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband ii. i. 30 The Girl..has Tongue enough: she woan't be dasht!
1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. xii. 286 From her a..look..will dash the boldest offender.
1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey x. 108 Dashed and abashed as no doubt for a moment she was.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > shame [verb (transitive)] > abash
abashc1384
rebash?1473
to put out of countenancec1500
to dash (a person) out of countenance (conceit, courage)1530
deface1537
dash1570
discountenance1584
disgrace1607
debash1610
out-nose1624
to put out of face1821
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 507/1 I dasshe out of countenaunce or out of conceyte, Je rens confus.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Isocrates in Panoplie Epist. 162 Your deerest friends..damnified, and dashed out of courage.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iii. xiv. 85 Cause sufficient, to haue dasht the best practized out of matter.
a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 408 It would dash him quite out of countenance.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xi. 61 In order to dash an opponent out of countenance by getting the laugh instead of the argument on his side.
8. To put down on paper, throw off, write, or sketch, with hasty and unpremeditated vigour.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [verb (transitive)] > write down hastily
slap1672
to run off1680
dash1726
jot1735
dash off, out1786
dot1797
splash1897
society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > compose hastily
scribble1576
palter1588
to throw together1646
dash1726
dash off, out1786
to run off1809
to strike off1821
to write off1841
1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 234 Please dash down anything that is proper for me to help.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 31 Never was dasht out, at one lucky hit, A fool, so just a copy of a wit.
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath Epil. His ready pen he drew, And dash'd the glowing satire as he flew.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 115 Then came a postscript dash'd across the rest.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) iv. 77 Ourself..into rhythm have dash'd The passion of the prophetess.
1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) II. 15 The impressions of the moment..dashed off with a careless but graceful pen.
9.
a. To draw a dash through (writing); to strike out, cancel, erase, efface. Now rare or Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking
strikec1386
to rub offa1425
cancelc1440
streakc1440
cross1483
outstrike1487
line1530
to strike out1530
dash1549
to strike off1597
cancellate1664
damask1673
score1687
to run through1817
overscore1834
blue-pencil1883
stroke1885
caviar1890
to stencil out1891
to strike through1898
ex1935
x1942
1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms lxix. 29 And dash them cleane out of the booke of hope.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Caecina in Panoplie Epist. 80 A faulte in writing is dashed out with a race of the penne.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 21 And now my penne these lines had dashed quite.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 270 Before the snow be melt, and the footings dashed.
1670 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 199 He would correct, alter, or dash out or put in what he pleased.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 454 She took a pen and dashed out the words.
b. To draw (a pen) vigorously through writing so as to erase it.
ΚΠ
1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 769 To dash the pen through all that you proscribe.
10. To mark with a dash, to underline.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > written character > represent by written character [verb (transitive)] > diacritic > type of diacritic
circumflex1565
acute1609
circumflect1751
dagesh1751
dash1836
umlaut1976
1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. i. 17 The infinite pains I took to dash and underline the points.
1871 Athenæum 13 May 583 He did so dash his initials at the end of letters.
11. slang. or colloquial. Used as a euphemism for ‘damn’, or as a kind of veiled imprecation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [verb (transitive)] > euphemisms for stronger oaths > for 'damn'
ram1645
slama1658
dang1793
dash1800
drat1857
soda1904
dagnab1916
1800 T. Morton Speed the Plough ii. ii. 28 But dash it, Lady Nelly, what do make thee paint thy vace all over we rud ochre zoo?
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 112 Dash my wigs, Quoth he, I would pummel and lam her well.
1844 John Chawbacon ii, in Halliwell Dict. (1865) I. p. xv Dash my buttons, Moll—I'll be darn'd if I know.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxii. 315 Dash it, Tony..you really ought to be careful.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. viii. 234 Dashed if I know!
II. Intransitive senses.figurative.1638 D. Featley Stricturæ in Lyndomastygem i. 102 in H. Lynde Case for Spectacles Lyes dash one with the other, and truth breakes out of the mouth of the lyar.† 14. To clash. Obsolete.
12. To move, fall, or throw itself with violence or smashing effect; to strike in violent collision against (upon, etc.) something else.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > forcibly or violently
beatc885
pilta1200
smitec1300
dashc1305
pitchc1325
dushc1400
hitc1400
jouncec1440
hurl1470
swack1488
knock1530
jut1548
squat1587
bump1699
jowl1770
smash1835
lasha1851
ding1874
biff1904
wham1948
slam1973
c1305 Saints' Lives in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 80 Þat weþer bigan to glide..þer hit gan dasche adoun..Ac in þe norþ half of þe churche..þer ne ful noȝt a reynes drope.
c1400 Melayne 964 Dede he daschede to the grounde.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 43 In my way there are..many stones to dash against.
1694 Acct. Several late Voy. (1711) ii. 168 The Whale..doth strike about with his Tail and Finns, that the Water dasheth up like Dust.
1720 W. R. Chetwood Voy. Capt. R. Falconer ii. 8 The Tempest was very much abated, and the Waves not dashing so often.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 156 And all the long-pent stream of life Dash'd downward in a cataract.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon II. 418 The full force of the Atlantic is dashing on the cliffs.
13.
a. Of persons: To throw oneself with violence, such as would overthrow obstacles or resistance; to go, run, or rush with sudden impetuosity, or with spirited or brilliant action. Also figurative. (Const. with variant prepositions and adverbs.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with impetuous speed
leapOE
swengec1000
swingOE
throwc1275
hurla1300
dashc1300
fling1300
stetec1330
lance?a1400
slinga1400
whirlc1400
wringc1400
dingc1450
whither1487
chop1555
to cast (also lay) one's heels in one's neck1599
clap1603
precipitate1622
teara1627
toss1727
to keep on at a score1807
whing1882
whirlwind1894
to go off full score1900
careen1923
c1300 K. Alis. 2837 The gate..up he brak; In to the cité he con dassche.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2393 Ouer þe bregge he deste.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 6293 (Mätz.) Forth dassed the king.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lviii. 200 Ye sarazyns dasshed in to the prese to haue rescued Huon.
1596 Pleas. Quippes Upstart Gentlw. in Hazlitt Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) IV. 258 Our wantons now in coaches dash, From house to house, from street to street.
1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 13 Doeg..Spurd boldly on, and Dash'd through Thick and Thin, Through Sense and Non-sense.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. v. 160 The oars..are dashing at the steps below.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII liv. 138 [He] dashed on like a spurred blood-horse in a race.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 377 [He] rode on madly..Dashed through the stream and up the other bank.
1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. vii. 230 To leave her card on foot at the doors of ladies who dashed up to hers in their barouche.
1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 11 Cæsar..dashed at his stockade and carried it by storm.
b. Said of action with pen or pencil.
ΚΠ
a1680 Earl of Rochester Allusion to Horace in Poems (1984) 100 With just bold Stroakes, he dashes here and there, Shewing great Mastery with little care.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)] > drums
dashc1325
tucka1400
dub1588
beat1656
ruff1675
dandera1724
rufflea1734
detonate1853
c1325 Coer de L. 4615 Trumpes blewen, tabours dashen.
15. colloquial. To make a display, ‘cut a dash’; dash off, out, to burst off, come out, with a dash.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [verb (transitive)] > write down hastily
slap1672
to run off1680
dash1726
jot1735
dash off, out1786
dot1797
splash1897
society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > compose hastily
scribble1576
palter1588
to throw together1646
dash1726
dash off, out1786
to run off1809
to strike off1821
to write off1841
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > extinguish (fire) [verb (transitive)] > by water
float1729
dash off, out1786
flood1883
1786 Mrs. Johnson Francis I. 159 Bidding fair to dash out, when he was qualified by manhood and experience.
1800 H. Wells Constantia Neville III. 68 He intended to dash off as a star of the first magnitude in the circles of fashion.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. viii. 215 That blade dashes most confoundedly..he is a princely fellow, to be sure.
1807 Salmagundi 15 Oct. 327 Every lady..dresses and dashes.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. with verb + object.† dash-buckler n. Obsolete a swaggering fellow, swashbuckler.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person
jettera1400
flirdom?a1500
facerc1500
termagant1508
rutterkina1529
bellomy1535
bystour1535
roister1549
swash1549
rush-buckler1551
roisterkin1553
swashbuckler1560
dash-buckler1567
swinge-buckler?1577
whiffler1581
huff-snuff1582
swish-swash1582
fixnet1583
swag1588
swasher?1589
kill-cow1590
roister-doister1592
dagger1597
flaunting Fabian1598
tisty-tosty1598
huff-cap1600
swaggerer1600
burgullian1601
huff-muff1602
tear-cat1606
blusterer1609
wag-feather1611
wind-cutter1611
bilbo-lorda1625
tearer1633
cacafuegoa1640
bravado1643
Hector1655
scaramouch1662
swashado1663
huffer1664
bluster-mastera1670
Drawcansir1672
bully huff1673
huff1674
belswagger1680
valienton1681
blunderbuss1685
Draw can bully1698
bouncer1764
Bobadil1771
bounce1819
pistol1828
sacripant1829
hufty1847
bucko1883
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. vi. sig. Diiiv A traine of dashbucklers or squaringe tospottes.
C2. with the verb-stem used attributively.
dash-piston n.
ΚΠ
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Dash Piston, the piston sliding in the dash pot of a Corliss engine, whose release by a spring closes the steam or exhaust valves, and whose concussion is deadened by the springs or buffers enclosed in the dash pot.
dash-plate n. (see quots.)
ΚΠ
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Dash Plates or Division Plates, plates sometimes fixed in a marine boiler in line with, and over, the tubes, in order to prevent the crown plates of the fire-box from being exposed to the action of the flame when the ship heels over heavily.
dash-pot n. a contrivance for producing gradual descent in a piece of mechanism or for preventing vibration or sudden motion, consisting of a cylinder or chamber containing liquid in which a piston moves; a hydraulic buffer.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion > damping of oscillation > that which
dash-pot1861
damper1929
1861 Sci. Amer. 30 Mar. 196/2 The ‘dash pot’ which Watt invented to graduate the descent of the puppet valve into its seat.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 666/2 To seat them without slamming, the valve-stems are provided with dash-pots.
1878 in J. Dredge Electr. Illumination (1885) II. App. p. lxiv The arm of the lever may be at right angles to the carbon, one end being weighted and the other attached to the core of a solenoid; the core may have a dash-pot action.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 86/1 The arc-lamp mechanism is provided with a dash-pot, or contrivance in which a piston moving nearly air-tight in a cylinder prevents sudden jerks in the motion of the mechanism.
1926 Brit. Standard Gloss. Terms Electr. Engin. (Brit. Engin. Standards Assoc.) 50 Dash-pot, an appliance for preventing the sudden or oscillatory motion of any moving part of a piece of apparatus, by the friction of air or of a liquid.
1930 Engineering 21 Feb. 249/2 The proper function of the piston chamber is, however, that of a dash-pot.
1931 Flight 13 Nov. 1131/2 The dashpot is double acting, and there is a powerful check to spring recoil.
1936 Gloss. Terms Railway Signalling (B.S.I.) 16 Dash pot, a cylinder with a piston valve in which the escape of air or liquid is checked by the valve to assist in lessening shock.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 225/1 Dash pot, a device for damping out vibration; it consists of a piston attached to the part to be damped, fitting loosely in a cylinder of oil.
1959 Times Rev. Industry Mar. 36/1 The variable feed rate for cutting is controlled by a hydraulic dashpot.
1962 Engineering 15 June 793/1 The relay trip current setting is adjustable..simply by altering vertically the position of the self-locking dashpots.
dash-wheel n. (see quot. 1874). See also dashboard n.
ΚΠ
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 226 Put this mixture into the colour trough..and after two days wash in the dash-wheel.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dash-wheel. (Bleaching.) A wheel with compartments revolving partially in a cistern, to wash and rinse calico in the piece, by alternately dipping it in the water and then dashing it from side to side of the compartments.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
dashadv.
With a dash: see the various senses of the noun and verb.
ΚΠ
1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour iv. iii. 45 The Waters..with a Murmuring sound Dash, dash, upon the ground, To gentle slumbers call.
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iii. 21 T'other's..at him again, dash with a new conceipt.
1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 4 Fall in with a hackney coach, and he [sc. a horse] will carry you slap dash against it.
1894 N.E.D. at Dash Mod. The boat went dash against the rocks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
<
n.1a1375
n.21788v.c1290adv.1667