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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024thresh•er (thresh′ər),USA pronunciation n. - a person or thing that threshes.
- FishAlso, thrasher. Also called thresh′er shark′. a large shark of the genus Alopias, esp. A. vulpinus, which threshes the water with its long tail to drive together the small fish on which it feeds.
- Middle English thressher. See thresh, -er1 1350–1400
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: thresher /ˈθrɛʃə/ n - a person who threshes
- short for threshing machine
Also called: thrasher, thresher shark any of various large sharks of the genus Alopias, esp A. vulpinus, occurring in tropical and temperate seas: family Alopiidae. They have a very long whiplike tail with which they are thought to round up the small fish on which they feed
thresh /θrɛʃ/USA pronunciation v. - to separate the grain from (a cereal plant), as by beating with a tool: [~ + object]to thresh the wheat.[no object]spent all day in the fields threshing.
n. [countable] - the act of threshing.
Sometimes, thrash /θræʃ/USA pronunciation . thresh•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024thresh (thresh),USA pronunciation v.t. - to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.
- to beat as if with a flail.
v.i. - to thresh wheat, grain, etc.
- to deliver blows as if with a flail.
- thresh out or over. See thrash (def. 8).
n. - the act of threshing.
Also, thrash. - bef. 900; Middle English threschen, thresshen, Old English threscan; cognate with German dreschen, Gothic thriskan; akin to Dutch dorsen, Old Norse thriskja
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