Word Finder - thresher

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Anything or anyone that threshes.

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A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail.

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A modern farm machine for threshing grain, now a part of combine harvesters rather than a separate implement.

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Any of several large pelagic sharks of the genus Alopias, which have a very long tail; more commonly called thresher sharks.

Charles Kerr wrote the first policy for a thresher.

The shocks of wheat are hauled directly to the thresher and fed into the self-feeder.

Thresher has a number of wines from the Australian winemaker Peter Bright who has been working in Portugal for a number of years now.

Then, as we ascended, we ran into a manta ray, and I even found a thresher shark.

The state institutions consist of state hospitals for the insane at St Peter (1866), at Rochester (1877), established originally as a state inebriate asylum under a law taxing liquor dealers for that purpose, which was subsequently held to be unconstitutional, at Fergus Falls (1887), at Anoka (1900) and at Hastings (1900); the state institute for defectives at Faribault, consisting of the schools for the deaf (1863), blind (1874) and feeble-minded (1879); the state public school for dependent and neglected children at Owatonna (1886); a sanatorium for consumptives at Walker; a hospital for indigent, crippled or deformed children (1907) at St Paul; the state training school for boys near Red Wing; a similar industrial school for girls (established separately in 1907) at Sauk Center; the state reformatory at St Cloud (1887), intermediate between the training school and the state prison, for first offenders between the ages of sixteen and thirty years, in which indeterminate sentences and a parole system are in operation; the state prison at Stillwater (1851), in which there is a parole system and a graded system of diminution of sentence for good conduct, and in which, up to 1895, prisoners were leased under contract (especially to the Minnesota Thresher Company), and since 1895 have been employed in the manufacture of shoes and of binding twine, and in providing for the needs of the prison population; and the state soldiers home occupying fifty-one acres adjoining Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis.

A scuba diver threw some fish food to a gigantic eel and a thresher shark.

Thresher Sharks are usually uncommon summer migrants to the English Channel.

The grain falls from the spout of the thresher into the box-wagon, which carries it to the elevator.