thresher

Examples

• All

• Cooper made the steam engines, and farmers hauled them to their fields to run threshers.

  Blog text (23)

• Yeah, sure, Tammy liked to drive her dad's thresher—she said the heavy vibration helped her think, you know?

  Fiction book (1999)

• He was working the fields this morning with the thresher when it got away from him.

  Werewolf (1997)

• He leans down, looks under the thresher.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Taking up most of the space are two harvesters, big rusty hovering threshers roughly the size of Winnebagos.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Cyclone 2 is equipped with a conveyor system to carry shredded material out of the thresher housing toward the rear of the machine, where it is deposited into a windrow pile up to four feet high.

  Academic text (1995)

• The thresher grinds to life—a hundred blades and claws spinning at Vriess's head!

  Fiction book (1997)

• This thresher makes it easier to harvest and clean the rice quickly.

• After the harvest, we relied on the thresher to process the grain efficiently.

Synonyms

T

threshing machine

vsthresher

• Archaic

1 4.7

A machine on a farm that separates grain from stalks and husks

is a shorter single word name for the same device

T

thrasher

vsthresher

• Archaic

8.6

A farm machine that separates grain from the husks and straw

is the standard single word name rather than that variant

Compounds

T

thresher shark

1 6.8

A large shark from warm seas with a long tail used to stun small fish

How Efficient

combine

6 6.1

thresher

• Specialized

3 7.2

flail

5 8.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology