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Thrasher   /θrˈæʃər/   Listen
Thrasher

noun
1.
A farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw.  Synonyms: thresher, threshing machine.
2.
Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs.  Synonym: mocking thrush.
3.
Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed.  Synonyms: Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thresher, thresher shark.



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"Thrasher" Quotes from Famous Books



... Thrasher, alluded to in our last, is the subject of a letter from the Secretary of State to our Minister in Madrid, under date of December 13. Mr. Webster directs efforts to secure Mr. Thrasher's release from imprisonment Mr. Thrasher was sent to ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... belonged, did not number Grumpy Weasel among its admirers. He never cared to hear a bird sing—not even Jolly Robin's cousin the Hermit, who was one of the most beautiful singers in the woods. And as for Buddy Brown Thrasher, whom most people thought a brilliant performer, Grumpy Weasel always groaned whenever he heard him singing in the ...
— The Tale of Grumpy Weasel - Sleepy-Time Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey


Words linked to "Thrasher" :   brown thrush, thrash, shark, mocking thrush, Toxostoma rufums, oscine, genus Toxostoma, thresher, genus Alopius, oscine bird, farm machine, Alopius, Toxostoma


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