thrasher

Other forms of thrasher

plural

thrashers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thrasher

What does thrasher mean?

thrasher means "a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thrasher?

thrasher has 2 syllables: thras-her. The stress falls on "thras". In IPA it is /ˈθɹæʃɚ/.

What is another word for thrasher?

Close synonyms include thresher, threshing machine, mocking thrush, thresher, thresher shark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thrasher a common word?

thrasher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.