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thrasher

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Thrashers are a New World group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds . Like these, they are in the Mimidae family . There are 15 species in one large and 4 monotypic genera . These do not form a clade but are a phenetic assemblage. ...

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Song \Song\ (s[o^]ng; 115), n. [AS. song, sang, fr. singan to sing; akin to D. zang, G. sang, Icel. s["o]ngr, Goth. saggws. See Sing .] That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc. ...

Usage examples of thrasher.

Suddenly it becomes a horrible possibility that he bribed this Mouche to make sure the Thrasher won.

Through his batting helmet he heard muffled cheers from the Thurston Thrashers grandstand.

What I was enjoying here was the fruit of years of thinking and planning by Mark, a fine boatbuilding job by Finbar and his yard, unlimited supplies of money from Derek Thrasher, and finally, and very satisfying it was, weeks of rather good work by none other than myself.

As I stood in some stalled passage and listened to the canned instructions I looked down on the lots and runways through the layered insult of dawn rain: all the sharks with their fins erect, thrashers, baskers, great whites killers.

A curve-billed thrasher whit-wheeting his way between mesquite and cholla, chunking into the topsoil for bugs.

On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds.

At Christmas, the dog had showed up at Brown Thrasher Barony, the horse farm that Jeff managed.

A small brown thrasher settled on a nearby branch and inspected us both with obvious interest.

A brown thrasher sits on a twig imitating all the birds in his area.

I stretched back in the sun and hummed the song of the brown thrasher and of Barometer, the nuthatch.

A brown thrasher swept a darting red brown arrow past his head and he could hear yellow warblers gossiping among the willows.

A brown thrasher swept a darting red-brown arrow past his head, and he could hear yellow warblers gossiping among the willows.

The drivers of the trucks, an oppressed minority of two, have retreated into the cab of the sound truck to smoke cigarettes and glare balefully at the swarm of thrashers, their sworn enemies in the food chain of the highways.

It turned into a bigger problem when the whole Kourier thing got started and thrashers started spending a lot more time trying to go fast through office.

Tomorrow, he will face his bastard son Mordred and that youth's army of Nazi-like Thrashers on the battlefield.