thresher

See also: Thresher

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old English þrescan

Middle English threschen

Middle English -er

Middle English thresshere

English thresher

From Middle English thresshere; equivalent to thresh +‎ -er. The shark's tail is thought to resemble the implement.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɛʃə(ɹ)/
Audio (General American): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛʃə(ɹ)

Noun

thresher (plural threshers)

(agriculture) Anything or anyone that threshes.
(agriculture, historical) 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) Ellipsis of thresher shark. [from 1880s]

A thresher, using a flail

19th century animal powered thresher

Modern combine harvester with grain tray attached

Examples of agricultural threshers

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

anything or anyone that threshes

Catalan: trillaire m or f (person)
Finnish: puimuri (fi) (anything); puija (fi) (anyone)
Greek: αλωνιστής (el) m (alonistís)
Italian: trebbiatore (it) m
Polish: młocarz m, młocarka f
Turkish: harmancı (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: خرمانجی (harmancı)
Volapük: cepan (vo)

hand tool

Catalan: trill (ca) m
Dutch: vlegel (nl) m
Finnish: varsta (fi)
French: fléau (fr) m
German: Dreschflegel (de), Flegel (de)
Polish: młocarka f
Russian: цеп (ru) m (cep)
Unami: pèhpaitehikàn

farm machine

Armenian: կալսիչ (hy) (kalsičʻ)
Azerbaijani: taxıldöyən
Belarusian: малатарня f (malatarnja)
Breton: dornerez (br) f
Bulgarian: върша́чка f (vǎršáčka)
Catalan: ventadora (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 脱粒机 (zh) (tuōlìjī)
Czech: mlátička (cs) f
Danish: tærskeværk n
Dutch: dorsmachine (nl) f
Esperanto: draŝmaŝino
Finnish: puimuri (fi), puimakone (fi)
French: batteuse (fr) f
Frisian:
West Frisian: terskmasine
German: Dreschmaschine (de) f
Greek: αλωνιστική μηχανή f (alonistikí michaní)
Hungarian: cséplőgép (hu)
Ido: drash-mashino
Indonesian: mesin perontok
Irish: inneall buailte m, buailteoir m
Italian: trebbiatrice (it) f
Japanese: 脱穀機 (だっこくき, dakkokki)
Kashubian: draszmaszina f
Korean: 탈곡기 (talgokgi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: patoz (ku)
Latvian: kuļmašīna f
Lithuanian: kuliamoji f
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: dorskast

German Low German: Döschmaschin
Luxembourgish: Dreschmaschinn (lb) f
Macedonian: вр́шачка f (vŕšačka), вр́шалка f (vŕšalka)
Malayalam: മെതിയന്ത്രം (metiyantraṁ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: treskeverk n

Nynorsk: treskeverk n, treskjeverk n
Occitan: batedoira f
Polish: młocarnia f, młockarnia f, młocarka f
Portuguese: debulhador m
Russian: молоти́лка (ru) f (molotílka)
Scottish Gaelic: inneal-bualaidh m
Slovak: mláťačka f
Slovene: mlatilnica f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: młośenica f, młośawa f

Upper Sorbian: młóćawa f
Spanish: trilladora (es) f, aventadora (es) f, beldadora f
Swedish: tröskverk (sv) n
Turkish: patoz (tr)
Ukrainian: молотарка f (molotarka)
Unami: pèhpaitehikàn
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: молотилка (uz) (molotilka)

Latin: molotilka (uz)
Volapük: cepacin (vo)
Welsh: dyrnwr m

shark of the genus Alopias — see thresher shark