thresher

thresh·er (thr

1. One that threshes: a thresher of grain.

2. A threshing machine.

3. Any of various large sharks of the genus Alopias, especially A. vulpinus of the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans, having a tail with a long whiplike upper lobe with which it strikes the surface of the water.

thresher [ˈθrɛʃə]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a person who threshes

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) short for threshing machine

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called thrasher thresher shark any of various large sharks of the genus Alopias, esp A. vulpinus, occurring in tropical and temperate seas: family Alopiidae. They have a very long whiplike tail with which they are thought to round up the small fish on which they feed

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Noun	1.	thresher - a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw thrasher, threshing machine farm machine - a machine used in farming
	2.	thresher - 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, thrasher 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

Translations

thresher [ˈθreʃəʳ] N (= person) → trillador(a) m/f; (= machine) → trilladora f

thresher

(Agr: = machine) → Dreschmaschine f; (= person) → Drescher(in) m(f)

(= thresher shark) → Drescherhai m

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Alopiidae Alopius Alopius vulpinus alveolitis Elasmobranchii family Alopiidae farm machine farmer's lung fish family fox shark genus Alopius hunger personage Selachii shark subclass Elasmobranchii subclass Selachii thrasher thresher shark	The long strap which ran from the driving-wheel of his engine to the red thresher under the rick was the sole tie-line between agriculture and him. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context Poyser's men, there is that big Ben Tholoway, a very powerful thresher, but detected more than once in carrying away his master's corn in his pockets--an action which, as Ben was not a philosopher, could hardly be ascribed to absence of mind. Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context All through the wheat season, she told us, Ambrosch hired his sister out like a man, and she went from farm to farm, binding sheaves or working with the threshers. My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context	three-wheeled three-wheeler three-year-old three-year-old horse threefold threep threepence threepenny threepenny bit threescore threesome thremmatology Threne Threnetic Threnode threnode a Threnodist threnody threonine Threpe Threpsology thresh thresh about thresh out Thresh-fold thresher thresher shark thresher's lung threshing threshing floor threshing machine threshold threshold agreement threshold element threshold function threshold gate threshold level threshold operation threshold population Threshwold Threskiornis Threskiornis aethiopica Threskiornithidae Threste Thretteen Thretty threw Thribble thrice Thricecock Thrid	threnodies threnodist threnodist threnodists threnodists threnody threnody Threo Threo- ß-Benzoylaspartic Acid Threo-Hydroxy Beta-Aspartic Acid threonine threonine threonine threonine Threonine 188 Was Changed to Alanine Threonine Residue at Position 355 threonine residue at position 529 threp- Threpe Threpsology Threpsology thresh thresh thresh thresh about thresh out Thresh-fold threshed threshed threshed thresher Thresher Separator Hydraulic Drive thresher shark thresher shark Thresher sharks Thresher sharks thresher's lung Thresher-Separator Threshers Threshers threshes threshes threshes threshing threshing threshing threshing barn Threshing Barn Fodders threshing floor threshing floor threshing floors threshing floors threshing machine threshing machine Threshing machines Threshing machines threshold threshold threshold threshold threshold

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Alopiidae
Alopius
Alopius vulpinus
alveolitis
Elasmobranchii
family Alopiidae
farm machine
farmer's lung
fish family
fox shark
genus Alopius
hunger
personage
Selachii
shark
subclass Elasmobranchii
subclass Selachii
thrasher
thresher shark

The long strap which ran from the driving-wheel of his engine to the red thresher under the rick was the sole tie-line between agriculture and him.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

Poyser's men, there is that big Ben Tholoway, a very powerful thresher, but detected more than once in carrying away his master's corn in his pockets--an action which, as Ben was not a philosopher, could hardly be ascribed to absence of mind.

Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context

All through the wheat season, she told us, Ambrosch hired his sister out like a man, and she went from farm to farm, binding sheaves or working with the threshers.

My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context

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