thrasher

noun, thresher | ‘thresher’: a person that threshes grain (COD)

“I remember going out and helping my aunt a couple of times with the food when she would have the thrashers. It was, wouldn’t you say, quite the experience? Quite the community thing, wasn’t it?”

“There was always some kind of hijinks going on around the thrashers, seeing people, especially older guys, playing tricks on the young guys.”

“There’d be pies to no end and all kinds of desserts, and generally you had the thrashers for at least one day and maybe two, depends on the weather. If you got a day that you might just get set up and start the thrashing, or if you get a shower of rain, well, everything shut down.”