Crossword clues for thrasher
thrasher
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ``That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.''
--Hawthorne.A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
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More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
The bard that first adorned our native tongue Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.
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Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
This subject for heroic song.
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An object of derision; a laughingstock.
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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A trifle; an insignificant sum of money; as, he bought it for a song. ``The soldier's pay is a song.''
--Silliman.Old song, a trifle; nothing of value. ``I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song.''
--Dr. H. More.Song bird (Zo["o]l.), any singing bird; one of the Oscines.
Song sparrow (Zo["o]l.), a very common North American sparrow ( Melospiza fasciata, or Melospiza melodia) noted for the sweetness of its song in early spring. Its breast is covered with dusky brown streaks which form a blotch in the center.
Song thrush (Zo["o]l.), a common European thrush ( Turdus musicus), noted for its melodius song; -- called also mavis, throstle, and thrasher.
Syn: Sonnet; ballad; canticle; carol; canzonet; ditty; hymn; descant; lay; strain; poesy; verse.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who thrashes. 2 Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera ''Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes'' and ''Ramphocinclus'' in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak. 3 A thresher shark. 4 (context informal English) A fan of thrash metal music.
WordNet
n. a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw [syn: thresher, threshing machine]
thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs [syn: mocking thrush]
large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed [syn: thresher, thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus]
Wikipedia
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. It is rather likely than not — though by no means robustly supported — that the sage thrasher is a basal lineage among a group also consisting of mockingbirds and Toxostoma thrashers. The Caribbean thrashers occupy varying positions in an assemblage consisting of them, the tremblers, and the New World catbirds. Here, the white-breasted thrasher appears to be quite basal though it is impossible to place it anywhere with certainty, whereas the pearly-eyed thrasher is probably quite close to the tremblers. (Hunt et al. 2001, Barber et al. 2004)
Their common name describes the behaviour of these birds when searching for food on the ground: they use their long bills to "thrash" through dirt or dead leaves. All of these birds eat insects and several species also eat berries.
Glenn Ruth (born June 13, 1969) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Thrasher. He is one-half of the tag team The Headbangers with Mosh. Ruth is best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation between 1996 and 2000.
Thrasher is a former NWA World Tag Team Champion and WWF World Tag Team Champion. After retiring in 2002, he returned to professional wrestling in 2011, reforming The Headbangers with Mosh and appearing on the independent circuit.
Thrasher is a monthly skateboarding magazine, founded in January 1981 by Kevin Thatcher, Eric Swenson, and Fausto Vitello, and published by High Speed Productions, Inc. of San Francisco, USA. The publication consists primarily of skateboard- and music-related articles, photography, interviews and skatepark reviews. The magazine also maintains a website, which includes segments with names such as "Firing Line" and "Hall of Meat", an online store, a video collection, a radio show, and a forum for registered users. The company also owns and operates the Double Rock indoor skateboarding facility.
Thrasher is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is affiliated with Cobra as the Dreadnoks' Thunder Machine driver and debuted in 1986.
Thrashers are a group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and catbirds.
Thrasher may also refer to:
- Thrasher (surname)
- "Thrasher", a song written and performed by Neil Young, featured on the 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps
- "Thrasher", a song by Evile off of their 2007 album, Enter the Grave
- "Thrasher", a song by Cavalera Conspiracy from their 2011 album Blunt Force Trauma
- Thrasher (magazine), an American skateboarding magazine
- The Atlanta Thrashers, a professional ice hockey team
- Someone who listens to Thrash metal music
- HMS Thrasher, several different ships
- Thrasher (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe, member of the Dreadnoks
- Thrasher or Headbanger Thrasher, a ring name of professional wrestler Glenn Ruth
- Colloquially, a thresher ( threshing machine) or combine harvester, particularly an older one
Thrasher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Buck Thrasher (1889–1938), American baseball player
- Craig Thrasher (born 1970), American alpine skier
- Edward L. Thrasher (1892–1971), American city councilor
- Frederic Thrasher (1892–1962), American sociologist
- Ivan Thrasher (1914–2011), Canadian politician
- John Thrasher (1818–1899), American city founder
- John E. Thrasher (born 1943), American politician
- Joseph Thrasher, American football player and coach
- Larry Thrasher (born 1959), American musician
- Michael Thrasher, British academic
- Neil Thrasher (born 1965), American country singer-songwriter
- Richard Thrasher (1922–1993), Canadian politician
- Rob Thrasher (born 1967), American businessman
- Sunny Besen Thrasher (born 1976), Canadian child actor
- Virginia Thrasher (born 1997), American sports shooter
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.