thresher


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Synonyms for thresher

a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw

large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed

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The Rogue Angel held third place with a 334-pound thresher, followed by the Go Figueire's 319-pound thresher and the Sum Fun U's 283-pound thresher.
Prior to its transformation, the Thresher Square building struggled as a largely vacant office structure.
With the help of a carpenter, who also roomed there, he built a thresher along the lines of the groundhog, but with improvements.
With the Thresher acquisition, Rahi now has 10 engineers on staff with knowledge of the latest A/V technologies, and 30 field technicians capable of handling large-scale IT services projects.
Our new Razer Raiju Ultimate and Tournament edition, and Razer Thresher, answer the call for next-level PS4 hardware."
I had the camera ready when the thresher came right into shot." Meanwhile, four teens were rescued by the RNLI and police when they got trapped on rocks by the tide in Watergate Bay in Newquay, Cornwall.
The presence of hovering dust particles and allergins, due to wheat thresher, could enhance risk of attack on 40 per cent.
That's why we were excited to see the Sylvan Foot-Powered Thresher demonstration at the Mother Earth News Fair in Asheville, N.C., back in April.
The shark meat trade is apparently alive and well, as evidenced by the apprehension of a shipment of thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus) meat on Wednesday night in Naga City, Cebu province.
Therefore, the present study has been planned for investigation and improvements in the prevalent design of the indigenous beater-wheat thresher to bring about durability, reduction in weight of machine and grain losses in addition to an accident free and cost effective thresher.
Wayne Comben and Graeme Pullen battled for two hours to pull in the thresher shark from their 17ft boat.
London, July 11 ( ANI ): Thresher sharks resort to sharp overhead "tail slaps" to stun or kill several of the smaller fish at once, a study has revealed.