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# thresher

«thresher» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who threshes, that is beats grain from its…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (threshers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thresher is a person who threshes, that is beats grain from its stalks to get the seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresher/#m1)

2) A thresher can also be a machine that does this job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresher/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

farm workers in old country tales who work in a barn or field gathering the harvest

### examples

- What news today? said the threshers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresher/#x1)
- The farmer hired three threshers for the harvest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresher/#x2)
- The threshers worked in the barn all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresher/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; count threshers as people, one by one

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thresher» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresher/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.