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- noun Plural form of
thresher .
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Examples
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It was used to produce power for belt-driven equipment such as threshers or fanning mills.
Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 John T. Schlebecker
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It also focuses on death rather than suffering, which is an important distinction for anyone who’s fundamentally concerned with cruelty: It is not of particular concern to me if field mice are being instantly killed in threshers.
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While lots of people have close calls boating threshers and makos, you don't often hear stories that result in hospitalization or bloodshed.
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The threshers come in and eat menhaden the same time of year as the bass.
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I've encoutered big sharks off our coast while fishing, from hammerheads to tigers to threshers ...
What's more fearsome in the wilds, a man eating shark, or a menacing rattle snake? 2009
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The threshers come in and eat menhaden the same time of year as the bass.
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Stumbled being a polite way of saying "dug a hole deep enough to hide at least half of those very threshers of which earlier we spoke."
Will Durst: Prom Queen Anguish Will Durst 2011
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Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg News A good monsoon season also boosts the auto industry as it increases demand for farm machinery like tractors and threshers.
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Stumbled being a polite way of saying "dug a hole deep enough to hide at least half of those very threshers of which earlier we spoke."
Will Durst: Prom Queen Anguish Will Durst 2011
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And each day that the weather held, the threshers went out into the fields and the air was filled with the scent of mown hay.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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