Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various songbirds of the genus Toxostoma and other genera in the family Mimidae, found throughout the Americas and having a long tail, a long curved beak, and usually a brown head and back.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
thresher . - noun A kind of throstle or thrush; specifically, in the United States, a thrushlike bird of the genus Harporhynchus, of which there are numerous species, related to the mocking-bird, and less nearly to the birds commonly called thrushes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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 alsofox shark ,sea ape ,sea fox ,slasher ,swingle-tail , andthrasher shark . - noun (Zoöl.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See
Brown thrush . - noun (Zoöl.) See under
Sage . - noun (Zoöl.) the common killer of the Atlantic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
thrashes . - noun Any of several
New World passerine songbirds , of the generaToxostoma , Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the familyMimidae , that have a long, downward-curved beak.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
- noun large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
- noun a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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The thrasher is a strong fish, twenty feet long, and of great weight.
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The thrasher is a strong fish, twenty feet long, and of great weight.
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As a machine that German workmen have invented and that is called a thrasher, but is at the same time a chopper — it has chains and knives, and cuts up the straw and thrashes the grain at the same time — so did Sprinkler and Razor work together, slaughtering their enemies, one from above and the other from below.
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They are very mischievious, but the second enemy is much more terrible and irresistible; it is the killer, sometimes called the thrasher, a species of whales about thirty feet long.
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The thrasher is the port-admiral of the station, and his blows are so many guns to enforce his orders to sail forthwith. "
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"thrasher," about fifteen feet in length, blunt-nosed, strong of jaw, with cruel teeth.
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Excuse me folks, muzzle loader season is open and old thrasher and I have a date!!
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The copse was loud with birds; a gang of titmice was foraging in the oak clump to the left, and I could hear what I thought was a thrasher in the near distance.
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