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Flail   /fleɪl/   Listen
Flail

noun
1.
An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing.
verb
1.
Give a thrashing to; beat hard.  Synonyms: lam, thrash, thresh.
2.
Move like a flail; thresh about.  Synonym: thresh.





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"Flail" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a flail, depend on it: wan no use wi'out t'other. Then theer's the singing of the auld song: who's gwaine to say that's ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts
... village, lying in a shroud of mist, come the measured sounds of the thresher's flail, now in sudden volleys, now slowly and with a dragging cadence, now in sharp, crackling bursts, and now again with a dull and hollow beat. Sometimes there is the noise of one flail only, but presently others have joined in ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various
... alley. The boys were so intent upon their game that they never noticed his approach until he was close upon them. Then they sprang up with wild yells, but the lash descended on them like a well-aimed flail; they rolled over and over in a writhing heap. After the heap had broken up and its shrieking units scattered, the irate priest calmly pocketed the marbles and, whip in hand, stalked back to ...
— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully
... into a knot in the center of the inclosure. Then the brazen sun looked down upon a Homeric struggle. Bulger, brawny warrior of the iron hook, swung his musket like a flail, every now and again shooting forth his more sinister weapon with terrible effect. Desmond, slim and athletic, dashed in upon the enemy with his half pike as they recoiled before Bulger's whirling musket. The rest, now a bare dozen, Bengalis though they were, presented still an undaunted ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... whoppingest Whale, Brave boys! As ever whisked a ta-a-a-il; In the trough o' the sea It was Labouring free. And a lashin' the waves like a flail, Brave boys! A lashin' ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. March 7, 1891. • Various


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