thrasher Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Thrash"er, Thresh"er noun (Also<
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Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
  2. (Zoöl.) 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.
  3. (Zoöl.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.

Webster 1913