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noun

a person or thing that thrashes.

any of several long-tailed, thrushlike birds, especially of the genus Toxostoma, related to the mockingbirds. Compare brown thrasher.

thresher (def. 2).

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see thrash, -er¹

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thrasher¹ (ˈθræʃə)

—n
	another name for thresher

thrasher² (ˈθræʃə)

—n
	any of various brown thrushlike American songbirds of the genus Toxostoma and related genera, having a long downward-curving bill and long tail: family Mimidae (mockingbirds)

[C19: perhaps from English dialect thresher, thrusher a thrush]

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