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thresher
/ ˈθrɛʃə /
noun
- a person who threshes
- short for threshing machine
- Also calledthrasherthresher 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
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Almost every “fact” is wrung through an ideological thresher and pulverized.
After Mr. Thresher's ministry closed amongst them, Mr. Woodward became the pastor.
Great care must be taken with this part of the thresher, or a great deal of grain will be carried into the straw.
Men began spewing out of the brawl like straw from a thresher as the old man grabbed arms, legs, or whatever was handy.
Combined harvester and thresher—Matteson, United States, 1886.
The sheds and the reaper and binder and thresher went just after, and the orchards and fences as well.
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