Definitions for threshers

threshers thresh·er

Spelling: [thresh-er]
IPA: /ˈθrɛʃ ər/

Threshers is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in threshers (eehhrrsst).

Definitions for threshers

noun

  1. a person or thing that threshes.
  2. Also, thrasher. Also called thresher shark. a large shark of the genus Alopias, especially A. vulpinus, which threshes the water with its long tail to drive together the small fish on which it feeds.
  3. a person or thing that threshes.
  4. Also, thrasher. Also called thresher shark. a large shark of the genus Alopias, especially A. vulpinus, which threshes the water with its long tail to drive together the small fish on which it feeds.

Origin of threshers

First recorded in 1350-1400, thresher is from the Middle English word thressher. See thresh, -er1

Examples for threshers

The baron raged like a tiger, and the cottager laid about him like a thresher.

It wasn't long till the thresher shouted to him to leave go the flail.

He was a thresher in the service of a farmer near Kew, in Surrey.

Combined harvester and thresher—Matteson, United States, 1886.

In the same year, Matteson invented his combined harvester and thresher.

We had a small engine and thresher that was pulled by a team.

His arms were working like flails in the hands of a thresher of grain.

In came the frame house, the spring buggy, the reaper, and the thresher.

Mr. thresher was the first minister that was settled over them.

The reaper and the thresher seemed to George the greatest of inventions.

It wasn't long till the thresher shouted to him to leave go the flail.

The reaper and the thresher seemed to George the greatest of inventions.

Combined harvester and thresher—Matteson, United States, 1886.

In came the frame house, the spring buggy, the reaper, and the thresher.

He was a thresher in the service of a farmer near Kew, in Surrey.

Mr. thresher was the first minister that was settled over them.

His arms were working like flails in the hands of a thresher of grain.

We had a small engine and thresher that was pulled by a team.

The baron raged like a tiger, and the cottager laid about him like a thresher.

In the same year, Matteson invented his combined harvester and thresher.

Word Value for threshers
Scrable

14

Words with friends

12

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