thresher

See also: Thresher

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-der.?

Proto-Germanic *þreskaną

Old English þrescan

Middle English threschen

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

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)/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃə(ɹ)

Noun

thresher (plural threshers)

1. (agriculture) Anything or anyone that threshes.
2. (agriculture, historical) A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail.
3. (agriculture) A modern farm machine for threshing grain, now a part of combine harvesters rather than a separate implement.
4. (zoology) Short for thresher shark. [from 1880s]

Derived terms

• harvester-thresher
• thresherman
• thresher whale

Related terms

• threshing
• thresh

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
• Turkish: harmancı (tr)

hand tool

• Catalan: trill (ca) m
• Dutch: vlegel (nl) m
• Finnish: varsta (fi)
• French: fléau (fr) m
• German: Dreschflegel (de), Flegel (de)

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
• 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
• 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)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: молотилка (uz) (molotilka)

  Roman: molotilka (uz)

• Welsh: dyrnwr m
• West Frisian: terskmasine

shark of the genus Alopias — see thresher shark

See also

• Threshing machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thresher shark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alopias on Wikispecies.Wikispecies