thresher

See also: Thresher

English

Etymology

From Middle English thresshere; equivalent to thresh +‎ -er. The shark's tail is thought to resemble the implement.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɛʃə(ɹ)/
Rhymes: -ɛʃə(ɹ)

Noun

thresher (plural threshers)

(agriculture) Anything or anyone that threshes.
(agriculture, historical) A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail.
(agriculture) A modern farm machine for threshing grain, now a part of combine harvesters rather than a separate implement.
(zoology) Any of several large pelagic sharks of the genus Alopias, which have a very long tail; more commonly called thresher sharks. [from 1880s]

Derived terms

thresherman
thresher whale

Related terms

threshing
thresh

Translations

anything or anyone that threshes

Catalan: trillaire m or f (person)
Finnish: puimuri (fi) (anything); puija (fi) (anyone)
Greek: αλωνιστής (el) m (alonistís)
Italian: trebbiatore (it) m
Turkish: harmancı (tr)

hand tool

Catalan: trill (ca) m
Dutch: vlegel (nl) m
Finnish: varsta (fi)

farm machine

Armenian: կալսիչ (hy) (kalsičʿ)
Azerbaijani: taxıldöyən
Belarusian: малатарня f (malatarnja)
Breton: dornerez (br) f
Bulgarian: върша́чка f (vǎršáčka)
Catalan: ventadora (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 脱粒机 (zh) (tuōlìjī)
Czech: mlátička (cs) f
Danish: tærskeværk n
Dutch: dorsmachine (nl) f
Esperanto: draŝmaŝino
Finnish: puimuri (fi), puimakone (fi)
French: batteuse (fr) f
German: Dreschmaschine (de) f
Greek: αλωνιστική μηχανή f (alonistikí michaní)
Hungarian: cséplőgép (hu)
Ido: drash-mashino
Indonesian: mesin perontok
Irish: inneall buailte m, buailteoir m
Italian: trebbiatrice (it) f
Japanese: 脱穀機 (だっこくき, dakkokki)
Kashubian: draszmaszina f
Korean: 탈곡기 (talgokgi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: patoz (ku)
Latvian: kuļmašīna f
Lithuanian: kuliamoji f
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: dorskast
German Low German: Döschmaschin
Luxembourgish: Dreschmaschinn (lb) f
Macedonian: вр́шачка f (vŕšačka), вр́шалка f (vŕšalka)
Malayalam: മെതിയന്ത്രം (metiyantraṃ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: treskeverk n
Nynorsk: treskeverk n, treskjeverk n
Occitan: batedoira f
Polish: młocarnia f, młockarnia f
Portuguese: debulhador m
Russian: молоти́лка (ru) f (molotílka)
Scottish Gaelic: inneal-bualaidh m
Slovak: mláťačka f
Slovene: mlatilnica f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: młośenica f, młośawa f
Upper Sorbian: młóćawa f
Spanish: trilladora (es) f, aventadora (es) f, beldadora f
Swedish: tröskverk (sv) n
Turkish: patoz (tr)
Ukrainian: молотарка f (molotarka)
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: молотилка (uz) (molotilka)
Roman: molotilka (uz)
Welsh: dyrnwr m
West Frisian: terskmasine

shark of the genus Alopias — see thresher shark