different between harvester vs thresher

English

Etymology

harvest +? -er

Noun

harvester (plural harvesters)

1. (dated) A person who gathers the harvest.
2. A machine that gathers the harvest.
3. (computing) A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
4. A North American butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America
5. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores
6. (Ireland) A finnock (young sea trout).

Derived terms

• combine harvester

Translations

See also

• reaper

Anagrams

• Everharts, reharvest

English

Etymology

From Middle English thresshere; equivalent to thresh +? -er. The shark's tail is thought to resemble the implement.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??r???(r)/
• Rhymes: -???(r)

Noun

thresher (plural threshers)

1. (agriculture) Anything or anyone that threshes.
2. (agriculture, obsolete) 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) Any of several large pelagic sharks of the genus Alopias, which have a very long tail; more commonly called thresher sharks. [from 1880s]

Derived terms

• thresherman
• thresher whale

Related terms

• threshing
• thresh

Translations

See also

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