1. Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
   "The thrasher entertained listeners with its repertoire of imitated calls";
   - mocking thrush
    
2. A farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
   "The old thrasher was on display at the agricultural museum";
   - thresher, threshing machine
    
3. Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
   "The thrasher shark used its long tail to stun the school of fish";
   - thresher, thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus

Derived forms: thrashers

Type of: farm machine, oscine, oscine bird, shark

Part of: Alopius, genus Alopius, genus Toxostoma, Toxostoma

Encyclopedia: Thrasher, Mississippi