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thresher

/thresh-er/US // ˈθrɛʃ ər //UK // (ˈθrɛʃə) //

打谷机,打谷者,打麦机,脱粒机

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that threshes.
    • : Also thrasher. Also called thresher shark . a large shark of the genus Alopias, especially A. vulpinus, which threshes the water with its long tail to drive together the small fish on which it feeds.

Examples

  • Almost every “fact” is wrung through an ideological thresher and pulverized.

  • After Mr. Thresher's ministry closed amongst them, Mr. Woodward became the pastor.

  • Great care must be taken with this part of the thresher, or a great deal of grain will be carried into the straw.

  • Men began spewing out of the brawl like straw from a thresher as the old man grabbed arms, legs, or whatever was handy.

  • Combined harvester and thresher—Matteson, United States, 1886.

  • The sheds and the reaper and binder and thresher went just after, and the orchards and fences as well.