Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun thresher

2 senses of thresher

Sense 1
thresher, thrasher, threshing machine -- (a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw)
       => farm machine -- (a machine used in farming)

Sense 2
thresher, thrasher, thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus -- (large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed)
       => shark -- (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)