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A person who threshes crops, esp. with a flail.
A person who threshes crops, esp. with a flail. Also: an implement, device, etc., for threshing; (sometimes) spec. a threshing machine. Cf. thrash, v.…
spec. One who threshes corn with a flail, as task-work, n. or piece-work: see quot. 1792.
Scottish. A person who threshes grain. Cf. lot, n. 5b.
a labourer in a barn, a thresher.