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Meanings of thrasher in inglês

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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.

              Usage of thrasher in inglês
              1
              The big one looked up and shook his Hussite thrasher at us.
              The fifth servant
              2
              The brown thrasher is a beautiful singer and eats many insects, mostly injurious.
              Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
              3
              The thrasher is a strong fish, twenty feet long, and of great weight.
              Fighting the Whales
              4
              A steam thrasher didn't last long; a horse outlived three automobiles.
              One of Ours
              5
              They are the swordfish, the thrasher, and the killer.
              Fighting the Whales
              6
              From a tree-top near the roadside a brown thrasher will sing a song of rejoicing.
              Friends and Helpers
              7
              That poor thrasher, now, that you scared last week!
              Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites
              8
              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
              11
              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...
              12
              The perp-almost always an innocent thrasher-isalways a three-second skateboard ride away from asylum in the neighboring franchulate.
              Snow Crash
              13
              The brown thrasher does some, or all of his fellow-birds and everything he does seems good to him.
              The new yorker
              14
              Why is the thrasher so stealthy?
              Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
              15
              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
              16
              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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              Thrasher through the time