Crossword clues for thresher
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thresher \Thresh"er\, n. Same as Thrasher.
Thrasher \Thrash"er\, Thresher \Thresh"er\, n.
One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
(Zo["o]l.) A large and voracious shark ( Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
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(Zo["o]l.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. (Zo["o]l.) See under Sage.
Thrasher whale (Zo["o]l.), the common killer of the Atlantic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., agent noun from thresh. The thresher shark (c.1600) so called for its long upper tail, which resembles a threshing tool.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context agriculture English) Anything or anyone that threshes. 2 (context agriculture obsolete English) A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail. 3 (context agriculture English) A modern farm machine for threshing grain, now a part of combine harvesters rather than a separate implement. 4 (context zoology English) Any of several large pelagic sharks of the genus ''Alopias'', which have a very long tail; more commonly called thresher sharks. (from 1880s)
WordNet
n. a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw [syn: thrasher, threshing machine]
large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed [syn: thrasher, thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus]
Wikipedia
Thresher may refer to:
- Threshing machine (or thresher), a device that first separates the head of a stalk of grain from the straw, and then further separates the kernel from the rest of the head:
- Thresher shark, a type of shark with a distinctly scythe-shaped tail
- USS Thresher refers to two United States Navy submarines, named after the Thresher shark:
- Threshers ( First Quench Retailing), a UK off-licence (liquor store) chain
- Rice Thresher, the undergraduate student newspaper of Rice University
- Clearwater Threshers, a minor league baseball team in the Florida State League
Usage examples of "thresher".
When he finally came to the story of the thresher amputee, and the calm workings of the phymech as his patient died, the eyes turned from Bergman.
Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers, Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers-- And all of them stood in the rain and sun, Getting rusted, warped and battered, For I had no sheds to store them in, And no use for most of them.
The Thresher, the Bluefin, the Scorpion-the Navy never gave up until everyone was found.
They will build such engines and these engines will be useful on farms as stationary power sources for threshers, balers, loaders, etc.
The complete package, gangplow, mechanical seeders, binders, and bull threshers drop the labor rates down to 8-10 man hours per acre and 0.
I think working day after day beside these massive threshers and balers with their grinding gears and flapping fan belts and complex mechanisms they get a little hypnotized by all the noise and motion.
Then a three-metre tiddler attempted a fast break around the wheels of the thresher.
Going looking for the makings of a cake which I will give to the threshers, the threshers to give me a whisp of straw, the whisp of straw I will give to the cow, the cow to give me milk, milk I will give to the cat, cat to scrape butter, butter to go in claw of hound, hound to hunt deer, deer to swim water, water to wet flag, flag to edge axe, axe to cut a rod, a rod to make a gad, a gad to hang Manachar, who ate my raspberries every one.
When the bean threshers have passed, you will see, where they have stopped, big piles of bean chaff.
If you will spread a blanket on the ground, and, on a windy afternoon, toss the chaff in the air over the blanket, you will understand that the threshers are not infallible.
Instead of fighting each other mostly, they beat us like threshers nailing out the grain.