thresher

Other forms of thresher

plural

threshers·

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 thresher

What does thresher mean?

thresher means "a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thresher?

thresher has 2 syllables: thres-her. The stress falls on "thres". In IPA it is /ˈθɹɛʃɚ/.

What is another word for thresher?

Close synonyms include thrasher, threshing machine, thrasher, thresher shark, fox 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 thresher a common word?

thresher is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.