Thresher Definition
 thrĕshər 
    noun
  
 One that threshes.
 A thresher of grain.
 American Heritage 
A person who threshes.
 Webster's New World 
Webster's New World 
A thresher shark.
 American Heritage 
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.
 Webster's New World 
Synonyms: 
  
- threshing machine
- thrasher
- grain-shoveler
- engineer
- separator man
- bundle-hauler
- pitcher
- harvester
- harvest hand
- Alopius vulpinus
- fox shark
- thresher-shark
Other Word Forms of Thresher
Noun
Singular:
 thresherPlural:
 threshersOrigin of Thresher
-  thresh +"Ž -er. The shark's tail is thought to resemble the implement. From Wiktionary 
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