thresher in English

noun
1
a person or machine that separates grain from the plants by beating.
Agriculture thrives on the other side of those hills; grain threshers reaping wheat, trucks full of tomatoes, cucumbers and watermelons.
2
a surface-living shark with a long upper lobe to the tail. Threshers often hunt in pairs, lashing the water with their tails to herd fish into a tightly packed shoal.
‘In September a thresher shark was spotted near Turbot Bank, off Freshwater West,’ said Mark Burton, assistant marine conservation officer at Skomer Marine Nature Reserve.
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1. Buzzsaw is a Thresher Slug who belongs to Eli Shane

2. Ammavve who spun yarn , Pittavve a seller of pancakes , Sommavve a thresher have also composed vachanas .

3. I'm still waiting for the Lord to provide me with a new thresher.

4. But this one morning I jumped in and found this thresher that had just recently died in the gill net.

5. The Bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus) is a species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae, found in temperate and tropical oceans worldwide.Like other thresher sharks, nearly half its total length consists of the elongated upper lobe of the tail fin.Its common name comes from its enormous eyes, which are placed in keyhole-shaped sockets that allow them to be rotated upward.

6. A record of 5 m (16.4 ft) is dubious and may have resulted from confusion with other thresher species.

7. Nakamura also separately illustrated and described a fetus, that Leonard Compagno later concluded was probably of a common thresher.

8. It is often confused with the common thresher (A. vulpinus), even in professional publications, but can be distinguished by the dark, rather than white, color over the bases of its pectoral fins.

9. They therefore argue that Spinosaurus used its dorsal neural sail in the same manner as sailfish, and that it also employed its long narrow tail to stun prey like a modern thresher shark.

10. The strategies that sailfish and thresher sharks employ against shoaling fish are more effective when the shoal is first concentrated into a ‘bait ball’ (Helfman, Collette & Facey, 1997; Oliver and colleagues, 2013; Domenici and colleagues, 2014).