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Thresher vs Thrasher - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between thresher and thrasher

is that thresher is anything or anyone that threshes while thrasher is one who thrashes.

thresher

English

Noun

(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.

    • Derived terms

    * thresherman

    Related terms

    * threshing * thresh

    See also

    * (Threshing machine) * (Thresher shark) * (Alopias)

    thrasher

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia thrasher) (en noun)
  • One who thrashes.
  • Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes'' and ''Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
  • A thresher shark.
  • (informal) A fan of thrash metal music.