thresher
(t̸hres̸h′ər)
noun
- a person who threshes
- threshing machine
- any of a family (Alopiidae, order Lamniformes) of large sharks of temperate and tropical seas, having a very long upper tail lobe, which supposedly threshes the water and drives its prey together
See thresher in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun- One that threshes: a thresher of grain.
- A threshing machine.
- Any of various large sharks of the genus Alopias, especially A. vulpinus of the Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans, having a tail with a long whiplike upper lobe with which it strikes the surface of the water.
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