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# thresher

noun (threshers)

«thresher» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A thresher is a person who threshes, that is beats grain from its stalks to get the seed. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresher/#m2)

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

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «thresher» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thresher/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«thresher» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/thresher.html) on Mova free.