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Thresher

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Anything or anyone that threshes.
  2. 2
    large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed wordnet
  3. 3
    A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail. historical
  4. 4
    a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw wordnet
  5. 5
    A modern farm machine for threshing grain, now a part of combine harvesters rather than a separate implement.
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  1. 6
    Ellipsis of thresher shark. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-der.? Proto-Germanic *þreskaną Old English þrescan Middle English threschen Middle English -er Middle English thresshere English thresher From Middle English thresshere; equivalent to thresh + -er. The shark's tail is thought to resemble the implement.

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