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ALL meanings of flail

flail
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  • intransitive verb flail thrash about 1
  • noun flail grain harvest: implement 1
  • noun flail A threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it. 1
  • noun flail an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar. 1
  • noun flail a similar instrument used as a weapon of war. 1
  • noun flail A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material. 0
  • noun flail A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain. 0
  • verb flail (Transitive Verb) To beat using a flail or similar implement. 0
  • verb flail (Transitive Verb) To wave or swing vigorously. 0
  • verb flail (Transitive Verb) To thresh. 0
  • verb flail (Intransitive Verb) To move like a flail. 0
  • verb flail If your arms or legs flail or if you flail them about, they wave about in an energetic but uncontrolled way. 0
  • verb flail Flail around means the same as flail. 0
  • countable noun flail A flail is a tool which consists of a piece of wood or metal that can swing freely from a handle. Flails are used to beat crops such as corn in order to separate the grain from the rest of the plant. 0
  • noun flail an implement used for threshing grain, consisting of a wooden handle with a free-swinging metal or wooden bar attached to it 0
  • noun flail a weapon so shaped used in the Middle Ages 0
  • verb flail to beat or thrash with or as if with a flail 0
  • verb flail to move or be moved like a flail; thresh about 0
  • noun flail a farm tool consisting of a free-swinging stick tied to the end of a long handle, used to thresh grain 0
  • verb transitive flail to thresh with a flail 0
  • verb transitive flail to strike or beat as with a flail 0
  • verb transitive flail to move (one's arms) about like flails 0
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