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

Derived forms: thrashers

Type of: farm machine, oscine, oscine bird, shark

Part of: Alopius, genus Alopius, genus Toxostoma, Toxostoma

Encyclopedia: Thrasher, Mississippi