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单词 thresher
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Definition of thresher in English:

thresher

nounˈθrɛʃəˈθrɛʃər
  • 1A person or machine that separates grain from corn or other crops by beating.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nick was sent sailing into the grain thresher, smashing against the sides of the tower as Seven quickly darted at him.
    • Not long after having the baby in August, Tess becomes a thresher.
    • Magnus described respiratory symptoms among threshers of grain in 1555.
    • Drilling rigs replaced grain threshers and steam tractors at a frenzied pace.
    • The threshers dispersed throughout the yard, some to wash at the trough, some to rest in the shade beneath the poplars, some to the kitchen to nag old Luculla to hurry with the midday meal.
    • The emperor inspected the livestock and machinery, and was treated to a display of how the thresher worked.
    • At Weydon fair, this corn thresher got drunk and spoke in an ill-tempered way of his wife.
    • Dave Carroll and the vintage people were located in Teach Laighne car park with threshers, tractors and old time cars for all to view.
    • But this farmer is a kindly old man that loves his wayward piglet since his wife died in a thresher accident.
    • Some farmers use nets to catch rats, which start scurrying when they hear the roar of tractors and threshers.
    • Occasionally I'll mention that, for example, my arm was torn off last week by a wheat thresher.
    • She went into the fields and talked with the threshers.
    • It was taken to Sheffield in the 1930s and saw out its working days there by steaming out to farms and powering thresher machines right up to 1964.
    • Some of the income that accrues is used to buy tractors, threshers, and irrigation and distillation equipment, which is then offered on hire.
    • Soon after Dun arrived in Japan, the Meiji emperor even had visited one of the Tokyo experimental farms, witnessing the industrial magic of a mechanical thresher.
    • Agriculture thrives on the other side of those hills; grain threshers reaping wheat, trucks full of tomatoes, cucumbers and watermelons.
    • In the distance she sees the threshers, hurrying to cut the wheat.
    • At that time the thresher had its own small engine and was not pulled by a tractor.
    • I don't know what the health and safety people today would have said when we were working on the threshers.
    • He was a brother of Mick Byrne, the well-known thresher man who drove his thresher into many farmsteads in West Wicklow.
  • 2A surface-living shark with a long upper lobe to the tail. Threshers often hunt in pairs, lashing the water with their tails to herd fish into a tightly packed shoal.

    Alopias vulpinus, family Alopidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Peering through my viewfinder, I could scarcely believe what I was seeing, because the pelagic thresher shark is extremely rare.
    • Once grouped, thresher sharks are thought to use their mighty tails to shock the fish until they are confused, at which point they're eaten.
    • Populations of thresher sharks are down by 80 per cent and great whites by 79%.
    • One enduring memory of this wreck was that of a 4m thresher shark lazily cruising the 10m contour above us as we ascended.
    • ‘In September a thresher shark was spotted near Turbot Bank, off Freshwater West,’ said Mark Burton, assistant marine conservation officer at Skomer Marine Nature Reserve.
    • Dr Ken Collins of Southampton Oceanography Centre added: ‘I know of a Isle of Wight fisherman who managed to catch a 340 lb big eye thresher shark.’
    • In 1998, Scott Cherry landed a 9 foot, 140 lb thresher shark from his board after a 45 minute fight that at times dragged him and his rig through the water at an estimated 10 knots.
    • The industry was built up on thresher shark, and soon other species were added.
    • When the fishermen had had enough for the day, after around six hours, they had landed three different species of sharks - five hammerhead, ten threshers and 15 black-tipped reef sharks.
    • At 28m to the west of the channel mouth is an interesting pinnacle which acts as a magnet for schooling fish and their predators, including the infamous ‘grim reaper’ - the thresher shark.
    • A the moment the bonito and common thresher breeds of shark are relatively plentiful.
    • There is not much water movement here and it makes a good second dive, or so I thought until I saw the unmistakable shape of a thresher shark pass below me.
    • Make no mistake - makos, hammerheads, threshers, tigers, whites, whalers and six-gilled sharks all go over 1000 lb, and some of them with ease.
    • Big fish enjoy the current - mantas, tuna, sharks (oceanic white tips, threshers, tigers and silvertips) all pay regular visits.
    • Fisherman Tony Talbot got the shock of his life when a pulled up a 4ft thresher shark on to his boat as he was trying to catch bass.

Rhymes

flesher, fresher, pressure
 
 

Definition of thresher in US English:

thresher

nounˈTHreSHərˈθrɛʃər
  • 1A person or machine that separates grain from the plants by beating.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the distance she sees the threshers, hurrying to cut the wheat.
    • Occasionally I'll mention that, for example, my arm was torn off last week by a wheat thresher.
    • Soon after Dun arrived in Japan, the Meiji emperor even had visited one of the Tokyo experimental farms, witnessing the industrial magic of a mechanical thresher.
    • He was a brother of Mick Byrne, the well-known thresher man who drove his thresher into many farmsteads in West Wicklow.
    • It was taken to Sheffield in the 1930s and saw out its working days there by steaming out to farms and powering thresher machines right up to 1964.
    • She went into the fields and talked with the threshers.
    • Some farmers use nets to catch rats, which start scurrying when they hear the roar of tractors and threshers.
    • Agriculture thrives on the other side of those hills; grain threshers reaping wheat, trucks full of tomatoes, cucumbers and watermelons.
    • I don't know what the health and safety people today would have said when we were working on the threshers.
    • At that time the thresher had its own small engine and was not pulled by a tractor.
    • Drilling rigs replaced grain threshers and steam tractors at a frenzied pace.
    • Nick was sent sailing into the grain thresher, smashing against the sides of the tower as Seven quickly darted at him.
    • Magnus described respiratory symptoms among threshers of grain in 1555.
    • The threshers dispersed throughout the yard, some to wash at the trough, some to rest in the shade beneath the poplars, some to the kitchen to nag old Luculla to hurry with the midday meal.
    • Dave Carroll and the vintage people were located in Teach Laighne car park with threshers, tractors and old time cars for all to view.
    • But this farmer is a kindly old man that loves his wayward piglet since his wife died in a thresher accident.
    • Some of the income that accrues is used to buy tractors, threshers, and irrigation and distillation equipment, which is then offered on hire.
    • At Weydon fair, this corn thresher got drunk and spoke in an ill-tempered way of his wife.
    • The emperor inspected the livestock and machinery, and was treated to a display of how the thresher worked.
    • Not long after having the baby in August, Tess becomes a thresher.
  • 2A surface-living shark with a long upper lobe to the tail. Threshers often hunt in pairs, lashing the water with their tails to herd fish into a tightly packed shoal.

    Alopias vulpinus, family Alopidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Peering through my viewfinder, I could scarcely believe what I was seeing, because the pelagic thresher shark is extremely rare.
    • A the moment the bonito and common thresher breeds of shark are relatively plentiful.
    • Once grouped, thresher sharks are thought to use their mighty tails to shock the fish until they are confused, at which point they're eaten.
    • When the fishermen had had enough for the day, after around six hours, they had landed three different species of sharks - five hammerhead, ten threshers and 15 black-tipped reef sharks.
    • Dr Ken Collins of Southampton Oceanography Centre added: ‘I know of a Isle of Wight fisherman who managed to catch a 340 lb big eye thresher shark.’
    • ‘In September a thresher shark was spotted near Turbot Bank, off Freshwater West,’ said Mark Burton, assistant marine conservation officer at Skomer Marine Nature Reserve.
    • Fisherman Tony Talbot got the shock of his life when a pulled up a 4ft thresher shark on to his boat as he was trying to catch bass.
    • There is not much water movement here and it makes a good second dive, or so I thought until I saw the unmistakable shape of a thresher shark pass below me.
    • At 28m to the west of the channel mouth is an interesting pinnacle which acts as a magnet for schooling fish and their predators, including the infamous ‘grim reaper’ - the thresher shark.
    • Populations of thresher sharks are down by 80 per cent and great whites by 79%.
    • Big fish enjoy the current - mantas, tuna, sharks (oceanic white tips, threshers, tigers and silvertips) all pay regular visits.
    • Make no mistake - makos, hammerheads, threshers, tigers, whites, whalers and six-gilled sharks all go over 1000 lb, and some of them with ease.
    • The industry was built up on thresher shark, and soon other species were added.
    • In 1998, Scott Cherry landed a 9 foot, 140 lb thresher shark from his board after a 45 minute fight that at times dragged him and his rig through the water at an estimated 10 knots.
    • One enduring memory of this wreck was that of a 4m thresher shark lazily cruising the 10m contour above us as we ascended.
 
 
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