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say it: THRASH-ur
thrasher is a noun meaning "a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thrasher come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.