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n. A manual threshing device consisting of a long wooden handle or staff and a shorter, free-swinging stick attached to its end.

v. To beat or strike with or as if with a flail: flailed our horses with the reins.

v. To wave or swing vigorously; thrash: flailed my arms to get their attention.

v. To thresh using a flail.

verb-intransitive. To move vigorously or erratically; thrash about: arms flailing helplessly in the water.

verb-intransitive. To strike or lash out violently: boxers flailing at each other in the ring.

verb-intransitive. To thresh grain.

n. 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.

n. A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.

v. To beat using a flail or similar implement.

v. To wave or swing vigorously

v. To thresh.

n. 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.

n. An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.

n. An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear, consisting of the hand-staff, which is held in the hand, the swingle or swiple, which strikes the grain, and the middle band, which connects the hand-staff and swingle, and may be a thong of leather or a rope of hemp or straw.

n. Milit., a similar implement used as a weapon of war in the middle ages.

To whip; scourge.

To strike with or as if with a flail; thresh.

v. move like a flail; thresh about

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

"The Army wanted a robot that could perform a task called "flail" - essentially tilling dirt to find bombs buried beneath, and then either disabling or detonating them without destroying the robot."

flailed    flailing    flails   

beat    flap    implement    work over    beat-up   

beat    thrash   

Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   

pickaxe    battle-axe    mallet    sledgehammer    halberd    axe    hoe    spade    mace    scythe