thrasher
NounUS[thrash-er]/ˈθræʃɚ/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)
- a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and strawSynonyms: thresherthreshing machineType of farm machine
- thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongsSynonyms: mocking thrushType of oscine, oscine birdKinds brown thrasher, brown thrushMember of Toxostoma, genus Toxostoma
- large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feedSynonyms: thresherthresher sharkfox sharkAlopius vulpinusType of sharkMember of Alopius, genus Alopius
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Thrash′er, Thresh′er noun
1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
2. Zoology 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.
3. Zoology A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. Zoology See under Sage. — Thrasher whale Zoology, the common killer of the Atlantic.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54