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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



... and with a swift movement discarded robe and yashmak, and stood before him, in the clinging draperies of an ancient queen, wearing the leopard skin and the uraeus, and carrying the flail of royal Egypt! ...
— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer
... among alders and dwarf willows. Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might have served for a church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm. The flail was busily resounding within it from morning till night; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; and rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some with their ...
— Washington Irving • Charles Dudley Warner
... of the 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 ...
— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully
... an excellently devout and worthy woman!—for scarcely were we out of the village, when so fearful a storm of thunder, lightning, wind, and hail burst over our heads, that the corn all around us was beaten down as with a flail, and the horses before the coach were quite maddened; however, it did not last long. But my poor child had to bear all the blame again, inasmuch as Dom. Consul thought that it was not old Lizzie, ...
— The Amber Witch • Wilhelm Meinhold
... the ruddy wheat, The thumping of the flail, The winnowing within the barn By whirling round ...
— Old Times at Otterbourne • Charlotte M. Yonge


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