thresher

(t̸hres̸hər)

noun

  1. a person who threshes
  2. threshing machine
  3. 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
  1. One that threshes: a thresher of grain.
  2. A threshing machine.
  3. 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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