noun
- plural of thrasher: songbirds with long tails and curved bills that forage by moving leaves and debris
- plural of thrasher: machines used for separating grain from wheat or other crops
- plural of thrasher: people who thrash or beat something vigorously
Usage: ornithology
Usage: agriculture; historical
Examples
- The brown thrashers built their nest in the dense shrubs.
- Several thrashers were spotted foraging in the leaf litter.
- The old barn housed two steam-powered thrashers from the 1800s.
- Farmers relied on horse-drawn thrashers before modern combines.
- The thrashers worked tirelessly to separate the wheat from the chaff.
- Metal thrashers dominated the music scene in the 1980s.
- The team’s thrashers gave their opponents a decisive defeat.