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noun

Thresher, Thrasher n.

One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.

(Zool.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.

(Zool.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.

Sage thrasher. (Zool.) See under Sage.

Thrasher whale (Zool.), the common killer of the Atlantic.

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Etymology of 'Thresher'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thresher" Quotes from Famous Books

... United States, to Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, was for a threshing machine. The portable horse-power treadmill, invented in 1830 by Hiram A. and John A. Pitts of Winthrop, Maine, was presently coupled with a thresher, or "separator," and this outfit, with its men and horses, moving from farm to farm, soon became an autumn feature of every neighborhood. The treadmill was later on succeeded—by the traction engine, and the apparatus ...

— The Age of Invention - A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, Book, 37 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Holland Thompson

... Miss Thrasher, hardly older than Betty herself, and pretty in a white frightened way, refused, but almost cheerfully. "I have a Christmas box to open and Christmas letters to ...

— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various

... wood-wagtail, OR oven-bird (Seiurus aurocapillus). Thrush, gray-cheeked (Hylocichla alicae). Thrush, hermit (Hylocichla guttata pallasii). Thrush, olive-backed, OR Swainson's thrush (Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni). Thrush, red, OR mavis, OR ferrugninous thrush, OR brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum). Thrush, varied (Ixoreus naevius). Thrush, Wilson's. SEE Veery. Thrush, wood (Hylocichla mustelina). Titlark. SEE Pipit, American. Titmouse, gray-crested, OR tufted titmouse (Baelophus bicolor). Turkey, domestic. Turkey, ...

— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Thresher" : thresher shark, shark, thrasher, farm machine, Alopius, threshing machine, fox shark, thresher's lung, thresh, genus Alopius, Alopius vulpinus