thresher

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: thresh=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

thresher, n. 

•  One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.  [1913 Webster]

Sage thrasher. (Zoöl.) See under Sage. -- Thrasher whale (Zoöl.), the common killer of the Atlantic.

thresher, n. 

 Same as Thrasher.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

thresher, n.
1 a person or machine that threshes.
2 a shark, Alopias vulpinus, with a long upper lobe to its tail, that it can lash about.