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Dictionary: thresh·er   (thrĕsh'ər) pronunciation
n.
  1. One that threshes: a thresher of grain.
  2. A threshing machine.
  3. Any of various large sharks of the genus Alopias, especially A. vulpinus of the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans, having a tail with a long whiplike upper lobe with which it strikes the surface of the water.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
  Synonyms: thrasher, threshing machine

Meaning #2: large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
  Synonyms: thrasher, thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus


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Thresher may refer to:

  • Threshing machine (or thresher), a device that first separates the head of a stalk of grain from the straw, and then further separates the kernel from the rest of the head
  • Thresher shark, a type of shark with a distinctly scythe-shaped tail
  • USS Thresher refers to two United States Navy submarines, named after the Thresher shark:
USS Thresher (SS-200), a Tambor-class submarine that served in World War II.
USS Thresher (SSN-593), the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines and was lost by accident on 10 April 1963.

 
 
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