thrasher

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.

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[Perhaps alteration of thrush.]

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thrasher¹

n

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

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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]

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Noun	1.	thrasher - a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw thresher, threshing machine farm machine - a machine used in farming
	2.	thrasher - thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs mocking thrush oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus genus Toxostoma, Toxostoma - thrashers brown thrasher, brown thrush, Toxostoma rufums - common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage
	3.	thrasher - large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thresher shark, thresher 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