thrash·er /ˈθræʃɚ/
鞭打者;鶇鳥之類
Thrash·er Thresh·er, n.
1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
2. Zool. A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
3. Zool. A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.
Sage thrasher. Zool. See under Sage.
Thrasher whale Zool., the common killer of the Atlantic.
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thrasher
n 1: a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks
and straw [syn: thresher, threshing machine]
2: thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
[syn: mocking thrush]
3: large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used
to round up small fish on which to feed [syn: thresher,
thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus]