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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



... ran, tossing his nose with pain and bellowing: Uxmoor dragged by the tail and compelled to follow in preposterous, giant strides, barely touching the ground with the point of his toe, pounded the creature's ribs with such blows as Zoe had never dreamed possible. They sounded like flail on wooden floor, and each blow was accompanied with a loud jubilant shout. Presently, being a five's player, and ambidexter, he shifted his hand, and the tremendous whacks resounded on the bull's left side. The bull, thus belabored, and resounding like the big drum, made a circuit of the ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... bullet appeared to strike him, though dozens of the rebels discharged muskets and even revolvers at him, at close range, when it began to be apparent on which side he was fighting. Up went that mighty flail, and down it came again on the heads of the human tares of rebeldom who so needed threshing out in the very garner of wrath. More than one of the Union men in the vicinity of the strange spectacle, who happened to have been classic readers in other ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
... bonnie feathers o' mine, The feathers o' my tail: And gie to the lads o' Hamilton To be a barn-flail. ...
— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories - A Book for Bairns and Big Folk • Robert Ford
... with a lithe movement, surprisingly graceful for a body so big, and made ready as though to once more swing his two flail-like fists. ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson
... with his modern flail He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail. ... Their fixed jav'lins in his side he wears, And on his back a grove of pikes appears." —WALLER'S BATTLE ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville


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