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Meanings of thresher 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.

Usage of thresher in English
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The plough, the self-binder, the thresher were all invented on the farm.
The French in the Heart of America
2
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!
4
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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The big thresher was reduced to a blazing, smoking hulk in short order.
The Desert of Wheat
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Of recent years the combined harvester and thresher has come into general use.
Dry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low ...
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The extra pieces of Kaeden's thresher were still on the table.
Ahsoka
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She dried her eyes, picked up Tibbola's thresher, and went back to work.
Ahsoka
10
My fat'er say: 'I got no plow, no binder, no thresher.'
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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Understanding how thresher sharks feed will help with efforts to protect them, Oliver said.
The Guardian
12
He and his cousins bought a steam thresher on shares.
O Pioneers!
13
He said, it was very difficult to determine how to agree with a thresher.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
14
She supposed that the contraption might have been a thresher.
Ahsoka
15
But nothing, manifestly, could be done to save the thresher.
The Desert of Wheat
16
If you can replace this, I can rebuild the thresher.
Ahsoka
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