Fresher vs Thresher - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fresher and thresher

is that fresher is a freshman while thresher is anything or anyone that threshes.

is comparative of fresh.

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(fresh)

(en noun)

(British) A freshman.

(Indian) A fresh graduate looking for his or her first job.

Fresher' is much more commonly used than ' freshman in the UK.

(en noun)

(agriculture) Anything or anyone that threshes.

(agriculture, obsolete) 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.

* thresherman