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Meanings of thrasher in English

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Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed.

Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs.

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Examples for "thresher"
Examples for "thresher"
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The plough, the self-binder, the thresher were all invented on the farm.
The French in the Heart of America
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Then he began to thrash around like a thresher in a barn.
Original Short Stories — Volume 13
3
We haven't got header boxes enough to feed the thresher, I guess.
O Pioneers!
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The moment they touched, his tail began to beat like a thresher.
Solomon's oak: a novel
5
At Oberinntal, in the Tyrol, the last thresher is called Goat.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
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Worked as a hired hand till he got his threshing machine built.
East of eden
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There was a man named Carl Bonton who owned a threshing machine.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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The Dublin threshing machine rolls on, reducing all before it to dust.
The Irish Times
4
There is not a modern plow in the islands or a threshing machine.
The Innocents Abroad
5
And now they had one small gasoline engine and one small threshing machine.
A Russian Journal
1
A yellowfin tuna, a great barracuda, and, if they had just been a little better prepared, a twenty-foot thresher shark.
The sex lives of cannibals: adrift in the equatorial pacific
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The sharks in the footage are "pelagic" or "open water" threshers , one of three species of thresher shark.
The Guardian
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A real thresher shark!
Shadows in Bronze
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Understanding how thresher sharks feed will help with efforts to protect them, Oliver said.
The Guardian
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The Sword-fish and Thresher Shark also help to destroy this harmless giant of the deep.
Within the Deep / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII...
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Let them operate on rats, foxes , sharks, vipers, and reptiles.
An Ethical Problem / Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentat...
Usage of thrasher in English
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The big one looked up and shook his Hussite thrasher at us.
The fifth servant
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The brown thrasher is a beautiful singer and eats many insects, mostly injurious.
Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
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The thrasher is a strong fish, twenty feet long, and of great weight.
Fighting the Whales
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A steam thrasher didn't last long; a horse outlived three automobiles.
One of Ours
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They are the swordfish, the thrasher, and the killer.
Fighting the Whales
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From a tree-top near the roadside a brown thrasher will sing a song of rejoicing.
Friends and Helpers
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That poor thrasher, now, that you scared last week!
Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites
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I used to be a thrasher, you know.
The Diamond Age
9
When they have been opened, the "feeder" throws the contents by armfuls into the "thrasher."
A Book of Exposition
10
See here, Claude, how soon do you figure you'll be able to let me have the thrasher?
One of Ours
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The water had been drained off and the reaper and thrasher were going through the fields before dawn.
The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay o...
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The perp-almost always an innocent thrasher-isalways a three-second skateboard ride away from asylum in the neighboring franchulate.
Snow Crash
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The brown thrasher does some, or all of his fellow-birds and everything he does seems good to him.
The new yorker
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Why is the thrasher so stealthy?
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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Across the fields in the early morning I hear some of the rare April birds,-thechewink and the brown thrasher.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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The killer or thrasher, about thirty feet; they often kill the other whales with which they are at perpetual war.
Letters from an American Farmer
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