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Thrasher
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Thrasher has 3 senses
- thrasher(n = noun.artifact) thresher, threshing machine - a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw; Array is a kind of farm machine
- thrasher(n = noun.animal) mocking thrush - thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs; Array is a kind of oscine, oscine bird
- thrasher(n = noun.animal) alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thresher, thresher shark - large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed; Array is a kind of shark
Derived form verb thrash6
is a member of genus toxostoma, toxostoma
has particulars: brown thrasher, brown thrush, toxostoma rufums
is a member of alopius, genus alopius
CIDE DICTIONARY
Thrasher, n.
- One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine. [1913 Webster]
- 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 alsofox shark ,sea ape ,sea fox ,slasher ,swingle-tail , andthrasher shark . [1913 Webster] - A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Thrasher, n.
1 a person or thing that thrashes.
2 = THRESHER.
1 a person or thing that thrashes.
2 = THRESHER.
Thrasher, n. any of various long-tailed N. American thrushlike birds of the family Mimidae.
Etymology
perh. f. E dial. thrusher = THRUSH(1)
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