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thrasher

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thrash·er  (thrshr)
n.
Any of various New World songbirds of the genus Toxostoma, related to the mockingbird and having a long tail, a long curved beak, and usually a brown head and back.

[Perhaps alteration of thrush.]

thrasher1
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for thresher (the shark)

thrasher2
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various brown thrushlike American songbirds of the genus Toxostoma and related genera, having a long downward-curving bill and long tail: family Mimidae (mockingbirds)
[perhaps from English dialect thresher, thrusher a thrush]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.thrasherthrasher - a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
farm machine - a machine used in farming
2.thrasher - thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
brown thrasher, brown thrush, Toxostoma rufums - common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage
3.thrasherthrasher - large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
Alopius, genus Alopius - type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae


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And they will bury her and Fyodor the thrasher with his curly beard full of chaff and his shirt torn on his white shoulders--they will bury him.
Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer.
Max Bennett Thrasher I could not have succeeded in any satisfactory degree.
 
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