thrasher

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
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

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.

Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer. — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville
Sometimes he saw her sitting pensively on a chair while her lord and thrasher perused a pink sporting-paper. — Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship, Unknown
The cat bird's eggs is sorter blue--an' the wood-pecker's is white, like his wing, an' the thrasher's is mottled like his breast." — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore

thresher, threshing machine

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