Definition of thresher
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:one that threshes;
especially
:threshing machine
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Grocery carts went door-to-door and families shared steam threshers later on to help neighbors bring in their harvests.
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Warming temperatures and loss of oxygen in the sea will shrink hundreds of fish species—from tunas and groupers to salmon, thresher sharks, haddock and cod—even more than previously thought, a new study concludes.
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Three years later, Witness announces that the thresher of big-business pop has advanced in its harvest of history by, well, about three years.
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Mako Mania Tournament: 21st annual contest for catching sharks, bluefish and thresher sharks.
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While the fungal pathogen killing the leopard sharks has affected them indiscriminately, the salmon, thresher, and mako sharks that have washed up seem mainly to be young.
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First Known Use of thresher
13th century
THRESHER Defined for Kids
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