About The Word Flail

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Flail

Flail Meaning & Definition
Flail Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flail?

[n] an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
[v] give a thrashing to; beat hard
[v] move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Flail: lam | thrash | thresh | thresh

Related Terms | Find terms related to Flail: bang | baste | bastinado | batter | beat | belabor | belt | birch | buffet | cane | club | cowhide | cudgel | cut | cut and thrust | drub | feint | flagellate | flail at | flail away at | flap | flog | fustigate | give a whipping | give the stick | hammer | hit at | horsewhip | knock | knout | lace | lambaste | larrup | lash | lash out at | lay on | let drive at | let fly at | lunge at | maul | paste | patter | pelt | pistol-whip | poke at | pommel | pound | pulverize | pummel | rap | rawhide | scourge | sledgehammer | smite | spank | strap | strike at | strike out at | stripe | swing at | swing on | swinge | switch | thrash | thresh | thrust at | thump | trounce | truncheon | wallop | whale | whip | whop

See Also | beat | beat | beat up | flap | implement | work over

Flail In Webster's Dictionary

\Flail\, n. [L. flagellum whip, scourge, in LL., a threshing flail: cf. OF. flael, flaiel, F. fl['e]au. See {Flagellum}.] 1. An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. --Milton. 2. An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. --Fairholt. No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. --Macaulay.

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