Thresher
/ˈθrɛʃər/noun
A person or machine that separates grain from husks and straw by beating.
Did you know?Thresher comes from the same ancient root as English thrash and thresh, all going back to a Proto-Indo-European idea of beating or pounding into submission.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ter-
“to rub, beat, or grind”
Old English
English
þrescan
“to thresh grain by beating it”
Middle English
English
threschen
“to beat out grain from the husk”
14th Century
English
thresher
“a person who threshes grain”
Modern English
English
thresher
“a person or machine that separates grain from husks and straw”